Albeniz, Isaac – Acentto – Viña del Mar

Asturias (Leyenda), Op. 47 No. 5 from Suite Espanola

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Suite Espagnole op. 47

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“One closes one’s eyes and is bedazzled by the sheer wealth of invention in this music!” The person who spoke so enthusiastically about Albéniz, one of the founders of the Spanish national style, was none other than Claude Debussy. The “Suite espagnole” for piano is surely his most popular work. It reflects the manifold rhythms and melodies of different Spanish regions – and in the last piece even Cuba is represented. The much loved composition “Asturias” was also included in the collection. This work now joins “Iberia” and the “Chants d’Espagne” in our much renowned series of Albéniz’ piano works.

Suite espagnole op. 47

Granada (Serenata)

Cataluña (Curranda)

Sevilla (Sevillana)

Cádiz (Saeta)

Asturias (Leyenda)

Aragón (Fantasia)

Castilla (Seguidillas)

Cuba (Capricho)

Chants d’Espagne op. 232

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Catalan piano virtuoso and composer Isaac Albéniz received his musical training under Liszt, Vincent d’Indy and Paul Dukas, among others. Today’s pianists mostly dedicate themselves to Albéniz’s extensive piano cycle “Iberia”, which he wrote towards the end of his life. The more attractive five-movement suite “Chants d’Espagne” op. 232, with movement titles such as “Sous le Palmier” [Under the palm tree] or “Córdoba”, was written in the 1890s. All the attributes of Albéniz the piano composer are present here: the form of the miniature-like character pieces, a richly coloured piano texture and the folksong sound with a Spanish flavour. The trade press has written about our Urtext edition with its detailed preface: “Henle’s editor, Ullrich Scheideler, works very precisely and clearly with regard to discrepancies and errors that evolved in previous generations. Rolf Koenen’s fingerings are balanced and intelligent.”

Chants d’Espagne op. 232

Prélude

Orientale

Sous le Palmier

Córdoba

Seguidillas

Iberia y España

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Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you a lifetime of musical enjoyment, presents two of Albéniz’s best-known works in authoritative editions: the piano suite Iberia, generally considered to be his masterpiece; and España, which contains the «Tango,» his most popular individual work.
Iberia is a collection of twelve musical scenes of Spanish life, principally Andalusian, written in the years from 1906 to 1909. Its brilliant and complex character is suffused with the rhythms and harmonies of Spanish popular music, to which Albéniz turned for inspiration in the last years of his life.
España, an earlier work first published in 1890, is made up of six piano pieces that subtly reflect the influences of the piano literature of the nineteenth-century salon and — like Iberia — the harmony and style of impressionism, which Albéniz himself helped to create. Both works reveal characteristics of the highly individualized piano technique Albéniz developed from early childhood and perfected under the tutelage of Liszt.

Evocacion ‘Iberia’
El Puerto ‘Iberia’
El Corpus En Sevilla ‘Iberia’
Rondena ‘Iberia’
Almeria ‘Iberia’
Triana ‘Iberia’
El Albaicin ‘Iberia’
El Polo ‘Iberia’
Lavapies ‘Iberia’
Malaga ‘Iberia’
Jerez ‘Iberia’
Eritana ‘Iberia’
Preludio ‘Espana’
Tango ‘Espana’
Malaguena ‘Espana’
Serenata ‘Espana’
Capricho Catalan ‘Espana’
Zortzico ‘Espana’