Stephen Hough - Mompou: Piano Music - Canciones y Danzas, Preludes etc. '1997
Artist | Stephen Hough Related artists |
Album name | Mompou: Piano Music - Canciones y Danzas, Preludes etc. |
Country | |
Date | 1997 |
Genre | Classical Piano |
Play time | 01:16:36 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
Media | CD |
Size | 199 mb |
Price | Download $1.95 |
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Tracklist 01. Canción y Danza No. 7 02. Prelude No. 1 03. Cants Mà gics: I. Energic 04. Cants Mà gics: II. Obscur 05. Cants Mà gics: III. Profond: Lent 06. Cants Mà gics: IV. Misteriós 07. Cants Mà gics: V. Calma 08. Canción y Danza No. 5 09. Prelude No. 5 10. Charmes: I. … pour endormir la souffrance 11. Charmes: II. … pour pénétrer les âmes 12. Charmes: III. … pour inspirer l'amour 13. Charmes: IV. … pour les guérisons 14. Charmes: V. … pour évoquer l'image du passé 15. Charmes: VI. … pour appeler la joie 16. Canción y Danza No. 8 17. Prelude No. 7 "Palmier d'étoiles" 18. 3 Variations: Theme. [Untitled] 19. 3 Variations: Var. 1. Les soldats 20. 3 Variations: Var. 2. Courtoisie 21. 3 Variations: Var. 3. Nocturne 22. Canción y Danza No. 3 23. Prelude No. 9 24. Dialogues I, II: I. Plaintif 25. Dialogues I, II: II. Modéré 26. Canción y Danza No. 1 27. Prelude No. 10 28. Paisajes: I. La fuente y la campana 29. Paisajes: II. El Lago 30. Paisajes: III. Carros de Galicia 31. Canción y Danza No. 9 32. Prelude No. 6 Without a spirit of childhood in the listener, the music of the Catalan Federico Mompou can seem almost infantile. The style the composer himself calls 'primitivista' involves no bar lines, key signatures or other such paraphernalia of 'organized' composition, and at first sight owes much to Satie. However the latter's cynicism here finds expression in genuine innocence and wonder. The titles of the four complete sets recorded here give some impression of what is to be expected: Cants Mágics, Charmes … but these titles can also be unhelpful, implying order when none is meant; the Cancións y Danzas are not part of a set as such, and the six examples here span some three decades. All of these miniatures (the longest is under six minutes) capture a world that is at once very real (Mompou describes his 'favourite place' as being the 'solitude of all large towns') and yet somehow set at a distance from the mundane through piano writing of plain and unpretentious vision.
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