Granados: Goyescas, an Opera for Piano

A unique coupling on record: a Romantic piano masterpiece with sonatas from the time of the paintings by Goya that fired the imagination of Granados to compose Goyescas.

Composers: Antonio Soler, Domenico Scarlatti, Enrique Granados
Artists: Jean-Francois Dichamp (piano)

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In his booklet essay, Jean-François Dichamp explains that he experienced an epiphany with Goyescas: while Granados himself later reworked his piano cycle into an opera, first premiered to acclaim at the Metropolitan Opera House, just a couple of months before the composer’s untimely death by drowning, the pianist sees the piano cycle as a through-written dramatic work in its own right: an opera for piano. He plays it accordingly, with tremendous fire and awareness of the voices which may be heard in pieces such as ‘The Maiden and the Nightingale’.

This is the lyric heart of a cycle which opens with the courtly insinuations of ‘Galant Compliments’ and soon progresses to a more ardent love duet, ‘Conversation at the Window’. Finally, as so often in Spanish music, death has the last word, and the cycle closes with the Serenade to a Ghost: comical yet chilling, unnerving and quintessentially Spanish.

Between each section of the Goyescas, like intermezzi at the opera, Dichamp places a Baroque keyboard sonata, by Scarlatti and Soler. This is the music that would have accompanied aristocratic evenings for the nobles who were immortalised – not always in complimentary terms – by Goya. These are the paintings that changed the course of Granados’s career when he first saw them as a young man in the Prado museum in Madrid, and determined that one day he would pay homeage to Goya’s muse in music.

Jean-François Dichamp graduated from the Paris Conservatoire and became a pupil of Nikita Magaloff. His recordings have long attracted critical praise: ‘A pianist of great delicacy, subtle and elegant’ (Le Monde de la Musique); ‘his Chopin is at once thorough and profound’ (Diapason).

Tracklist:
00:00:00 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: I. Los requiebros - The Compliments
00:09:25 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: II. Coloquio en la Reja - Conversation at the Window
00:20:51 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E-Flat Major, K.193
00:24:18 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: III. El Fandango de Candil - Fandango by Candlelight
00:30:42 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor, K.141
00:33:38 Antonio Soler: Sonata No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor
00:36:39 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: IV. Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor - Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale
00:43:12 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, K.25
00:46:12 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: V. El Amor y la muerte - Ballad of Love and Death
00:59:00 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in G Minor, K.8
01:03:41 Enrique Granados: Goyescas: VI. Epílogo. Serenata del espectro - Epilogue. Serenade to a Spectre
01:11:58 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E Minor, K.198

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