It's the Spanish-sounding music of Enrique Granados that gets played, but he wrote music in a large variety of traditions and genres in which he put his own spin on music from outside Iberia. The Naxos label's series, devoted to first his piano music and now to the orchestral music, have explored his work and brought several world premieres, including two on the present release by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González. For two of these three works, no complete manuscript exists, making this perhaps a ...
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It's the Spanish-sounding music of Enrique Granados that gets played, but he wrote music in a large variety of traditions and genres in which he put his own spin on music from outside Iberia. The Naxos label's series, devoted to first his piano music and now to the orchestral music, have explored his work and brought several world premieres, including two on the present release by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González. For two of these three works, no complete manuscript exists, making this perhaps a recording most appreciated by Granados fans. But the performances have a relaxed, almost affectionate quality that makes the album appealing off the bat, and there's one real masterwork: the final Elisenda (1912), whose final vocal movement has been lost. This exquisitely delicate work, written in a style known as Modernismo in Catalonia (it is sort of Debussy lite, lacking the more daring harmonic moves), is for orchestra with solo parts for violin, oboe, clarinet, cello, and flute,...
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Add this copy of Granados: Orchestral Works 3 to cart. $32.47, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Naxos.
