Granados: Goyescas, Allegro de concierto, Valses poéticos & Zapateado

Featuring

Xiayin Wang
Enrique Granados

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Granados's spiritual home was the Madrid of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the Madrid of artist Francisco de Goya, whose work he admired and collected.

Composer Biography

Granados and his wife tragically died when the SS Sussex, the ship they boarded for England after the successful premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, was torpedoed by a German submarine.

Performer Biography

Pianist Xiayin Wang is praised for her "estimable grasp of pianistic color and her ability to maintain and illuminate a strand of melody within the thickest of textures" by The New York Times.

Composition History

Granados was so inspired by Goya that he not only took up painting in Goya's style but also wrote music directly related to Goya's art or the era in which he lived.

Composition History

The Goyescas piano pieces and the opera Goyescas are inspired by scenes depicted by Francisco de Goya in engravings and tapestry designs.

Composer Biography

Enrique Granados, a Catalan composer, was born in Lérida and spent most of his life in Barcelona.

Compositional Technique

Granados described his Goyescas piano pieces as having "great sweep and difficulty," with abundant technical problems, extravagant harmonies, and structural risks, all serving to reflect the intensity of his interest in the characters.