really REALLY cool spanish piano music

[Mozartian]

I found this disc:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001X523/qid=1116984858/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9374310-3687336?v=glance&s=classical
At my library today... wow this music is seriously cool.
Anybody familiar with the composers Turina (1882-1949), Falla (1876-1946), and Mompou (1893-1987)? Played any of their music?

[rob47]

Falla (1876-1946)

I'm learning Fantasia Baetica by de Falla, (inspired by the legendary dr. thrac recording), and it is definetly real REALLY cool spanish piano music.

a teacher at Univsersity of Western Ontario, Jean-Paul Bracey, I believe did an all Turina recital earlier this year, which I missed...so ya..apparently Turina is not played too much and this was the reason for the recital.

[freakofnature]

I've heard of all three, but am only familiar with the piano music of F. Mompou. I'm currently learning some of his 'Intimate Impressions' (on the 4th disc) - they are technically very easy, but sound simply beautiful! If you've found a passion for spanish music, try E. Granados and I. Albeniz, too - I'm still trying to perfect Granados' first spanish dance und want to play some pieces out of Albeniz' Suite Espanola...

FoN

[Jacey1973]

I'm learning Fantasia Baetica by de Falla, (inspired by the legendary dr. thrac recording), and it is definetly real REALLY cool spanish piano music.

a teacher at Univsersity of Western Ontario, Jean-Paul Bracey, I believe did an all Turina recital earlier this year, which I missed...so ya..apparently Turina is not played too much and this was the reason for the recital.

OMG i love that Falla piece - i really got into it this week because it was part of my "Piano music from Liszt to Ligeti" Uni history of music module and i just took the exam on Tues. I was thinking of learning it too, it's quite a long piece - nearly 15 minutes i think.

Did you know it was written about Falla's reaction to the brutal treatment of La Guernica during the Spanish Civil War? (Hence its primitive, brutal sounding chords - i think quite reminiscent of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - written six years earlier in 1913). It is interesting to study Falla's realistic approach versus the romantic/rose tinited spectacled view of Spain by Debussy and Ravel in their piano music (e.g Debussy's La soiree dans grenade (Estampes - 1903)/La puerto del vino (Preludes 2 - 1913) or Ravel's `Alborada del gracioso' (Miroirs - 1905)).

[thracozaag]

OMG i love that Falla piece - i really got into it this week because it was part of my "Piano music from Liszt to Ligeti" Uni history of music module and i just took the exam on Tues. I was thinking of learning it too, it's quite a long piece - nearly 15 minutes i think.

Did you know it was written about Falla's reaction to the brutal treatment of La Guernica during the Spanish Civil War? (Hence its primitive, brutal sounding chords - i think quite reminiscent of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - written six years earlier in 1913). It is interesting to study Falla's realistic approach versus the romantic/rose tinited spectacled view of Spain by Debussy and Ravel in their piano music (e.g Debussy's La soiree dans grenade (Estampes - 1903)/La puerto del vino (Preludes 2 - 1913) or Ravel's `Alborada del gracioso' (Miroirs - 1905)).

  That's very interesting, and certainly makes a lot of sense.  I know it was written for Rubinstein (don't think he ever recorded it) and was the last piece Falla wrote in Andalusia.  A friend of mine very interestingly commented on certain sections of the piece as "sounding like a harpsichord--if Bartok were composing on it", heh.
  Oh yeah...and it's a real b!tch to play

koji (STSD)

[nanabush]

I love Maleguena from Albeniz but it is probably one of his easier pieces, and also have just found sheet music for Leyenda, the original version.  Any hints how to jump that far without slowing down, in the version without rests between high D chord and the middle d...

[anda]

i love most spanish music too - and over the few years i developed a passion for infante - you should really check out his works!

[Jacey1973]

  That's very interesting, and certainly makes a lot of sense.  I know it was written for Rubinstein (don't think he ever recorded it) and was the last piece Falla wrote in Andalusia.  A friend of mine very interestingly commented on certain sections of the piece as "sounding like a harpsichord--if Bartok were composing on it", heh.
  Oh yeah...and it's a real b!tch to play

koji (STSD)

Yeah i read somewhere that it was written for Rubinstein (Nikolai? I would check as i hav the score downstairs but i am upstairs hehe) but he never performed it - bloody rude really!

[Mozartian]

Hmm I'll definately have to start working on some of this stuff, as soon as I get some of this German stuff I'm working on under control.