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CAL PERFORMANCES
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Interrogando (1929)
Medley:
Jorge do Fusa (1952)
Gente Humilde (1945)
Lamentos do Morro (1950)
Palhao (1987)
Gismonti
Jongo (1978)
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beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guzlas. Here is
the heady scent of jasmines amid the swaying
palm trees, the dream fantasy of an
Andalusian Arabian Nights in which Albniz
loved to let his imagination dwell.
Enrique Granados (18671916)
Ocho Valses Poticos
Composed in 18861887.
Enrique Granados, born into the family of an
army officer in Lrida, near Barcelona, in
1867, and as a boy studied piano at the
Barcelona Conservatory (he gave his first public concert at age ten) and Spanish music with
the noted folklorist Felipe Pedrell. He went to
Paris in 1887 to apply for admission to the
Conservatoire, but fell ill during the entrance
examinations and instead became a private
student of Charles Wilfride de Briot, son of
the celebrated contralto Maria Malibran and
one of the Conservatoires most distinguished
faculty members. Granados remained in Paris
for two years before returning to Barcelona in
1889, where his mature dbut the following
year created a sensation and led to a successful performing career that took him throughout Europe as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and
chamber music player. The premire in 1892
of orchestrations of three of his Spanish
Dances, among the earliest works in the
Spanish idiom written by a native musician,
was well received and brought Granados his
first acclaim as a composer. Such encouragement prompted him to carry on with the series, and by 1900, he had completed and
published a full dozen Spanish Dances.
Granados continued to concertize and
compose during the first decade of the new
century, concentrating on piano pieces and
songs. In 1911, he wrote the music considered
by many to be his masterpiecea piano cycle
titled Goyescas, inspired by the paintings and
tapestry cartoons of Goya. Granados premired his Goyescas in Barcelona on March9,
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