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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…
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!…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…