GRANADOS; ENRIQUE

  • Granados: Piano Music/Weyand

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

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