Grande Messe des Morts, for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Requiem aeternam
Grande Messe des Morts, for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Dies irae
Grande Messe des Morts, for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Pie Jesu
Keyboard Sonata in D minor (Allegretto), R. 15
Il rè pastore, opera, K. 208: Overture
Quintet for guitar & strings in C major ("La Ritirada di Madrid"), G. 453 (arrangement of Piano Quintet, G. 409): 4. 12 Variations on 'La ritirata di Madrid'
Il Duca di Foix, overture
Fidelio, opera, Op. 72: Prisoners' Chorus: 'O welche Lust'
Caprice for solo violin in A minor (Theme & Variations), Op. 1/24, MS 25/24
Minuet for guitar in A major, Op. 11/6
Tancredi, opera: Recitativo e cavatina: 'O patria!... Di tanti palpiti'
Lección 26 for guitar
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130: Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
Listened to without reference to the booklet this disc would seem to be a meaningless jumble of music even knowing that it all came from the lifetime of Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is actually, however, one of the most successful releases so far in the Naxos label's Art and Music series, culling excerpts from recordings in the Naxos catalog and pairing them with an artist's biography and plates showing artwork. The plates here are few in number and not especially vivid, so the album may be best appreciated with a Goya ...
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Listened to without reference to the booklet this disc would seem to be a meaningless jumble of music even knowing that it all came from the lifetime of Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is actually, however, one of the most successful releases so far in the Naxos label's Art and Music series, culling excerpts from recordings in the Naxos catalog and pairing them with an artist's biography and plates showing artwork. The plates here are few in number and not especially vivid, so the album may be best appreciated with a Goya coffee table book in hand instead. But the booklet notes by Hugh Griffith are ideal. He makes neither too much nor too little of the art-and-music format, where there's a tendency either to construct artificially close correspondences (too much) or to slap together a more or less random group of chronologically appropriate works (too little). Griffith attacks the problem in terms of general and specific cultural and political currents that affected Goya's Spain. There are Spanish...
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