Jose Raul Lopez - Nicol�s Ruiz Espadero: Piano Music, Volume One

In this second volume of his survey of Cuban composers for the piano, Jos� Ra�l L�pez presents the work of Nicol�s Ruiz Espadero (1832�90), the most prominent name in Cuban music in the second half of the nineteenth century, both at home and abroad. Espadero�s output ranges from delicate Chopinesque salon miniatures to barnstorming Lisztian operatic paraphrases that demand a fearsome virtuoso technique to do justice to their high-Romantic swagger.