Utwory na płycie:

• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 1 #1 Los Requiebros
• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 1 #2 Coloquio En La Reja, Duo De Amor
• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 1 #3 El Fandango De Candil
• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 1 #4 Quejas, O La Maja Y El Ruiseñor
• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 2 #1 El Amor Y La Muerte, Balada
• Granados: Goyescas, O Los Majos Enamorados - Book 2 #2 Epílogo, Serenata Del Espectro
• Granados: El Pelele, 'Escena Goyesca'
• Granados: Allegro De Concierto

Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados
El pelele ‘Escena goyesca’
Allegro de concierto

Garrick Ohlsson injects some much-needed Mediterranean light into this dark time of year with Granados’s pianistic masterpiece, Goyescas. Written in the first decade of the twentieth century, it’s a musical tribute to the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, under whose spell Granados had fallen as a young man. Filled with a patriotic fervour for what he saw as a universally great Spanish genius, he wrote several pieces inspired by the painter’s life and times. The six pieces that make up Goyescas are no mere tone-poems but instead draw on details from Goya’s works notably the Caprichos, a sequence of aquatints that satirized (and outraged) Spanish society. They draw on Spanish folk music too, as in the famous dialogue between the Maiden and the Nightingale, complete with a trilling cadenza at the end for the nightingale.

Another product of Granados’s preoccupation with the painter was the exuberant El pelele, which recounts the tale of a straw man being tossed on a trampoline, while the Allegro de concierto forms a fittingly brilliant endpiece.