Carbajo - El españolito (Selection) [My perfomance]

[frankiisko]

Hi everyone  

This week I'm going to show you a very particular piece: "El españolito" (The little Spaniard) composed by Victor Carbajo.

It's a set of 60 variations over the national Spain's anthem. The variations represent some different musical period, different composers, musical styles etc.

These were 60 variations but as it was too long I've had to do a selection with my 24 favourites variations and I played them in a concert. Here it's the variations' order:

1(I. Density) 2(II. Boogie-Boogie Claxon) 3(III. Danza Alemana) 4(IV. Mozart Allegro) 5(V. Giga) 6(VI. Mozart Lento) 7(VII. Invención) 8(VIII. Polonesa Coja) 9(X. Marcello)
10 (XI. Disminuidos) 11 (XII. Chino) 12 (XIII. Rock & Roll) 13(XV. Beethoven Patético) 14(XVI. Strepitoso) 15(XVII. Clouseau) 16(XVIII. Polka) 17(XIX. Zortzico)18 (XX. Calypso) 19(XXV. ValSchumann) 20(XXVI. Turco) 21(XXVII. Vals Brahms) 22(XXVIII. Nyman) 23(XXX. Williams) 24(XXI. Blues)

Victor Carbajo is an actual spanish composer not very famous but he has some very ingenious pieces like this one.

I hope you like it! Thank you for watching!

[birba]

Very fine playing!  I remember your mendelssohn scherzo - great preparation.  But I, myself, don't like the music.  I sort of fizzled out towards the Anonimo Veneziano variation.  60 variations?!   

[frankiisko]

Thank you very much, birba! Yes, Mendelssohn's Scherzo was in that same place 

Yes, you have to have 40 minutes to be able to listen all the whole piece xD

I, myself, like the music (I'm spanish xD) but yes I understand that for someone foreign could be very hard to listen to all the variations... even boring.

Anyway, thank you for listening!