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Like Isaac Albéniz’s recently revived masterpiece Merlin, Henry Clifford (1895) was composed at the behest of Albéniz’s wealthy English patron Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, who bankrolled
Miguel Baselga’s third installment in his ongoing complete Albéniz cycle for BIS falls slightly short of the excellences that impressed me in Volume 2. In
Nicholas Unwin manages to squeeze all four books of Albéniz’s Iberia onto one CD, while all three Alicia De Laroccha versions spill over to a
I don’t know exactly who Peter Breiner is, but he has no business touching Albeniz’s masterpiece. There’s a fine “complete” orchestral version on Telarc that
This is a fairly standard collection of orchestral showpieces of 20th century Spanish music, and every work on this disc can be found on dozens
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
There’s little doubt that William Kapell, who died in a plane crash in 1953, was a great pianist. BMG honored his achievements a few years
