Spanish music

[franz_]

Hello guys,

Who has experience with playing music of Spanish composers? I don't.
I want to learn something. A piece with a timing of 4 - 10 mins, not crazy hard and nice sounding.

Anyone has suggestions?

[camstrings]

Evening Bell by Granados is a straightforward & evocative piece.
Albeniz's Granada sounds lovely on guitar or harp, so might be a suitable piece.   

[franz_]

Evening bell? What's the Spanish name?

More please... more

[richard black]

Look up pieces by Turina and Mompou. Both wrote some lovely works that are far from horrendous to learn but very effective in performance.

[stevebob]

Evening bell? What's the Spanish name?

“Evening Bell” by Granados is “La Campana de la Tarde” from Bocetos.

[redbaron]

Andaluza, No.5 from the Spanish Dances by Granados. Not too challenging, VERY Spanish sounding and seems to imitate the strumming of Flamenco guitars. Rumores de la Caleta from Recuerdos de Viaje by Albeniz is also a good one, much fun to play. I seem to recall some of the pieces from Espana, also by Albeniz are quite straightforward.

[franz_]

Thanks a lot!
Anybody knows how difficult Triana is?

[pianist1976]

Anybody knows how difficult Triana is?

I played it. It's very difficult. Jumps, fast arpeggios, super complex textures... Although in Iberia there are some pieces that are even more difficult (I'm thinking of Lavapies and Eritaña for instance) this is not easy at all but it's absolutely beautiful. If you have technique enough and you like it, why not play it?  

[lousyplayer]

I find it that Albeniz is so well sounding that your fingers will do all the difficult work for you. sometimes a piece is easy, but you haven't got that drive pushing you. I reccommend listening to it first though, to interiorize how it's suppose to sound like. also you can 'fake' some of the most challenging passages with a bit of tempo or even jump some notes as the effect is almost the same, its not like you have to press all the keys right as in Bach. Albeniz is an impressionist not a realist.

[pianoyutube]

Valses Poéticos, from Granados.
There's an introduction and 8 nice valses.

[philb]

You could always play some Soler  

There are also a large selection of piano sonatas that he wrote (Around 150)