GRANADOS; ENRIQUE

Granados: Piano Music/Weyand

Jed Distler

Uta Weyand proves totally at home with Granados’ pianistic and musical idiom. If Alicia de Larrocha paints the six Escenas Románticas in burning oils, Weyand’s

Granados Miolin BIS 3/9 C

David Hurwitz

The timings say it all: Alicia De Larrocha takes about 56 minutes to get through Granados’ 12 Spanish Dances; Anders Miolin needs a whopping 73’05!

Granados Spanish Tedium Naxos C

David Hurwitz

Naxos already has a version of Granados’ Spanish Dances transcribed (unsuccessfully) for guitar and orchestra, and this newcomer for orchestra alone doesn’t improve matters. First,

Granados

David Hurwitz

Some composer’s shouldn’t do hell. Berlioz? Now he did hell! Liszt? He couldn’t do anything but hell; his heaven was insipid. But Granados? Forget it.

Schubert Liszt Palexa C

Jed Distler

To be blunt, New York-based pianist Beth Levin’s live Schubert Wanderer Fantasy shouldn’t have been released. Her rhythmic mauling in the outer movements turns the

GRANADOS PIANO MUSIC VOL.4

ClassicsToday

Volume 4 of the continuing Naxos survey of the piano music of Enrique Granados includes three world premiere recordings. The performer is the American pianist

SPANISH PIANO MUSIC VOLUME 1

Jed Distler

Any pianist who aspires to tackle the formidable challanges sprinkled throughout Granados’ Goyescas or Albéniz’s Iberia suites invariably faces comparison with Alicia de Larrocha. Not

Argenta Espana, Yet Again on Decca C

David Hurwitz

Ataúlfo Argenta was a very talented conductor whose career was tragically cut short as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning–he was discovered in his garage