This is one of a series of releases by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González, exploring the orchestral music of Enrique Granados on the occasion of the centenary of his death on a ship torpedoed by a German submarine. Much of the material in the series qualifies as neglected compared with his music for piano, and one work here, La nit del mort, is receiving its world recording premiere. If you're after Iberian pictorial effects, be aware that they're here in only moderate abundance; Granados' musical ...
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This is one of a series of releases by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González, exploring the orchestral music of Enrique Granados on the occasion of the centenary of his death on a ship torpedoed by a German submarine. Much of the material in the series qualifies as neglected compared with his music for piano, and one work here, La nit del mort, is receiving its world recording premiere. If you're after Iberian pictorial effects, be aware that they're here in only moderate abundance; Granados' musical nationalism developed only in stages, and La nit del mort, a work from 1897, contains few characteristically Spanish (or Catalan) details. It is, however, a wonderfully moody late Romantic tone poem with a concluding section for tenor and chorus, suggesting nicely what Wagner might have accomplished in smaller forms. Granados called it a "poem of desolation. Dante, Op. 21 is another tone poem, and one on the non-Iberian theme of the life of the great Italian poet. It falls into two...
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![Granados: Orc Wks Vol. 2 [Gemma Coma-Alabert; Jesús Álvarez Carrión; Lieder Cŕmera; Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra, Pablo González] [Naxos: 8573264]](https://www2.alibris-static.com/cover/o20630izsf4_t.jpg)
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