Goyescas or Iberia

[pinoypianist]

which would be better to start with. I'm not planning to do the whole thing, just 1 piece. which would you choose from?

[iumonito]

Lots of great music between those two sets.

Evocacion (Iberia, Book I, No. 1) is the most accessible of the lot.

La maja y el ruisenor (Goyescas, No. 4, I think) and El Puerto (Iberia, Book I, No. 2) are also playable with practice.  El amor y la muerte is beyond technical evaluation, entirely a mater of your emotional world.  It contains small portions of the other hard stuff, but not in such sustained and extended way as the material it quotes.

The rest of it is rather daunting, the province of the super virtuoso or the super patient.  To pull off something like Triana, El Polo, Requiebros or El pelele, you will need a complete technical equipment and then some enormous dosages of garbo.

Lavapies and Corpus Christi en Sevilla are two of those pieces that I can only suspect are beautiful.  I recall hearing as a child a record of Michel Block playing Iberia and being transported beyond reality, but have never again been able to either find that record or hear anyone make any sense of these pieces.