Silvia Tro Santafé / Julian Reynolds

A Spanish song recital

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525520301
Catnr: GLO 5203
Release date: 19 August 2002
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Globe
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8711525520301
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GLO 5203
Release date
19 August 2002
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About the album

Beroemde en zeldzaam uitgevoerde Spaanse liederen door de ware opvolger van Berganza
De Spaanse mezzosopraan Silvia Tro Santafé is ongetwijfeld voorbestemd om de ware opvolger van de grote Teresa Berganza te worden, als een meesterlijke interpreet van Spaanse liederen. Dit eerste soloalbum zal haar internationale reputatie zeker op die manier vastleggen!

De beroemde Tonadillas van Granados vormen de kern van dit recital met liederen van een groot aantal van de vooraanstaande Spaanse componisten uit de 20e eeuw. Net zo interessant is de toevoeging van de nauwelijks uitgevoerde complete cyclus Cancionas Negras (Zwarte Liederen) van Montsalvatge, waarvan het betoverende lied Cancion de Cuna wereldberoemd is geworden. Julian Reynolds voegt iets van het meest idiomatische en geïnspireerde pianospel toe, dat ooit in een opname van dit repertoire heeft geklonken.

Composer(s)

Enrique Granados

Enrique Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto Granados, a Spanish army captain, and Enriqueta Campiña. As a young man he studied piano in Barcelona, where his teachers included Francisco Jurnetand and Joan Baptista Pujol. In 1887, he went to Paris to study. He was unable to become a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, whose mother, the soprano Maria Malibran, was of Spanish ancestry. Bériot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados’s own teaching of pedal technique. He also fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation. Just as important were his studies with Felip Pedrell. He returned to Barcelona in 1889. His first successes were at the...
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Enrique Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto Granados, a Spanish army captain, and Enriqueta Campiña. As a young man he studied piano in Barcelona, where his teachers included Francisco Jurnetand and Joan Baptista Pujol. In 1887, he went to Paris to study. He was unable to become a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, whose mother, the soprano Maria Malibran, was of Spanish ancestry. Bériot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados’s own teaching of pedal technique. He also fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation. Just as important were his studies with Felip Pedrell. He returned to Barcelona in 1889. His first successes were at the end of the 1890s, with the zarzuela Maria del Carmen, which attracted the attention of KingAlfonso XIII.
In 1911 Granados premiered his suite for piano Goyescas, which became his most famous work. It is a set of six pieces based on paintings of Francisco Goya. Such was the success of this work that he was encouraged to expand it. He wrote an opera based on the subject in 1914, but the outbreak of World War I forced the European premiere to be canceled. It was performed for the first time in New York City on 28 January 1916, and was very well received. Shortly afterwards, he was invited to perform a piano recital for President Woodrow Wilson. Prior to leaving New York, Granados also made live-recorded player piano music rolls for the New-York-based Aeolian Company's "Duo-Art" system, all of which survive today and can be heard – his very last recordings.
The delay incurred by accepting the recital invitation caused him to miss his boat back to Spain. Instead, he took a ship to England, where he boarded the passenger ferry SS Sussex for Dieppe, France. On the way across the English Channel, the Sussex was torpedoed by a German U-boat, as part of the German World War I policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. In a failed attempt to save his wife Amparo, whom he saw flailing about in the water some distance away, Granados jumped out of his lifeboat and drowned. However, the ship broke in two parts and only one sank (along with 80 passengers). Ironically, the part of the ship that contained his cabin did not sink and was towed to port, with most of the passengers, except for Granados and his wife, on board. Granados and his wife left six children: Eduard (a musician), Solita, Enrique (a swimming champion), Víctor, Natàlia, and Francisco.

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