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Iberia y Francia
MAURICE RAVEL
1.
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
6:24
À Madame la Princesse E. de Polignac
Assez doux, mais d'une sonorité large - Très lointain -
2.
Alborada del gracioso (1904-05)
7:01
(Aubade of the Jester)
No.4 from Miroirs
(Mirrors)
Assez vif
MANUEL DE FALLA
3.
Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour 'Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy' (1920)
3:20
for Guitar
Arranged 1920 by the Composer for Piano
Mesto e calmo - [ ] - Tempo I
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
4.
La Soirée dans Grenade (1903)
5:39
(Evening in Granada)
No.2 from Estampes
(Prints)
À J.E. Blanche - Juillet 1903
Mouvement de Habanera.
5.
La puerta del Vino (c. 1911-13)
3:55
(Wine Gate)
No.3 from Préludes, Book II
Mouvement de Habanera (avec de brusques oppositions d'extrême violence et de passionnée douceur) -
6.
La Sérénade interrompue (1910)
2:58
(The Interrupted Serenade)
No.9 from Préludes, Book I
Mondérément animé - Très vif - A tempo - Librement -
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
7.
El Albaicín (c. 1907)
8:12
No.1 from Iberia, Book III
À Madame Marquerite Hasselmans
Allegro assai, ma melancolico - Stesso tempo che prima -
8.
Évocation (c.1906)
6:06
(Evocation)
No.1 from Iberia, Book I
À Madame Ernest Chausson
Allegretto expressivo - Adagio - Tempo I - Quasi adagio -
9.
El puerto (c.1906)
4:56
(The Port)
No.2 from Iberia, Book I
À Madame Ernest Chausson
Allegro commodo - [ ] - Au mouvement - Adagio -
10.
Fête-Dieu à Séville (c.1906)
9:58
(Corpus Christi in Seville)
No.3 from Iberia, Book I
À Madame Ernest Chausson
Allegro gracioso - [ ] - Tempo du commencement -
FEDERICO MOMPOU
11.
Canción y Danza No.1 (1924)
3:23
Quasi moderato - Allegro non troppo
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
12.
L'Isle joyeuse (1904)
7:00
Quasi una cadenza - Tempo: Modéré et très souple -
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
13.
Rumores de la Caleta (1886-87)
4:20
(Murmurs from the Little Beach)
Malagueña
No.6 from Recuerdos de viaje
(Memories of Travel)
A mi ilústre amigo el Excmo. Sor. General Lopez Dominguez
FEDERICO MOMPOU
14.
Canción y Danza No.6 (1947)
3:54
Cantabile, espressivo - Ritmado
Total time: 77:06
Solo:Imogen Cooper piano
Notes
The internationally renowned pianist Imogen Cooper is best known for her interpretations of composers of the classical and romantic eras, as reflected in her existing discography for Chandos, featuring works by Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven, and Robert and Clara Schumann.
On her new album, she explores the links between more recent French and Spanish styles in a programme ranging from Albéniz to Mompou via Debussy, Ravel, and Falla.
Informed by the pianist’s frequent visits to (and love for) Catalonia (homeland to Albéniz and Mompou) and the Basque region of southern France (birthplace of Ravel) these are performances filled with feeling and personality, as well (of course) as virtuosic playing of the highest order.
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Reviews
Excellent Album ****
Jean-Charles Hoffelé – Classica (France) – December 2020/January 2021
“… one of the beauties of this collection is the way it conveys so powerfully the free-flowing, almost 360-degree influences that these composers exerted on one another… Cooper’s playing is also consistently stimulating. The album opens with a poised account of Ravel’s Pavane (not too slow) and includes a magically atmospheric Albéniz bracket…” ****½
Phillip Sametz – Limelightmagazine.com .au – 12 December 2019
“… As fans might expect, her [Cooper] approach is unforced, restrained, and more Appollonian that Dionysian. It works beautifully for Ravel’s famous Pavane and pieces by Debussy (La soirée dans Granade, La Puerta del Vino); the pedalling is heavenly, the phrasing languorous…” ***
Warwick Thompson – Pianist magazine – December 2019 – January 2020
Performance ***** Recording *****
“ …Cooper’s pianism has a rare refinement, and is hyper-sensitive to the composers’ demands … The whole thing is studded with lovely moments; the muted sweetness of ‘Rumores de la Caleta’, the sparkling arpeggiations of ‘Alborada del gracioso’, the seductive languor of ‘Soirée dans Grenade’, the rapt simplicity of Mompou’s sixth ‘Danza’, the graceful liberation of L’isle joyeuse. Brava!”
Michael Church – BBC Music magazine – November 2019
“… Ravel's 1899 piano original of Pavane pour une infante défunte defeats the best players. It's not so much difficult as awkward, challenging mood and atmospheric sonority as much as articulation and cantabile voicing. More often than not it ends up in disengaged chords and fragmented notes bereft of pulse and line. Prone to exposing weaknesses before strengths, opening an album with it is arguably foolhardy. Cooper proves otherwise. Her legato, texturing and velvet sonorities generate a landscape of grave beauty, paced and unhurried. Refusing to rush, allowing time and air, colour and depth their own continuum, ebbing and flowing, pays dividends throughout the thirteen subsequent pieces… High production standards (Rachel Smith, Jonathan Cooper), a luminously engineered Steinway crystalline in its upper register, and Snape's inimitable ambience add the final touch” *****
Ates Orga – ClassicalSource.com – September 2019
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