Gonzales Sanz - Enrique Granados: Recuerdos

The piano works selected for this recording clearly bring together the three facets of Enrique Granados, composer, pianist and teacher. Granados composed these delightful piano pieces thinking of young pianists, students at his Academy, inviting them to participate in the works he would later share with his intimates, unequivocally awakening a love of music. Apart from encouraging a love of music, Granados points to major details of a great teacher, intelligent fingering, and use of the pedal with a great sense of colour and resonances. Six Expressive Studies in the form of easy pieces recall his supposed Op. 1 Tales of Youth given the same subtitle in the form of easy pieces. If the aroma of Schumann is to be perceived there, in the Six Studies the influence can be perceived, logical on the other hand, of Chopin. Andante espressivo is also a study, not perhaps composed with the same intention of highlighting technical questions, but in it a precursor may be found to Goyescas, which was to be his masterpiece...