Enrique Granados - El Amor y la Muerte (from GOYESCAS) (1909-1911)

JOSU DE SOLAUN, piano
www.josudesolaun.com
Live from Madrid, April 2023
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El Amor y la Muerte: Balada (‘Love and Death: Ballade’).
Inspired by the tenth of Goya’s Caprichos (1799) and its caption: ‘See here a Calderonian lover who, unable to laugh at his rival, dies in the arms of his beloved and loses her by his daring. It is inadvisable to draw the sword too often’. ‘Intense pain, nostalgic love, the final tragedy—death: all the themes of Goyescas,’ confirmed Granados, ‘are united in El Amor y la Muerte … The middle section is based on the themes of Quejas, ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor and Los Requiebros, converting the drama into sweet gentle sorrow … the final chords [death of the majo, G minor lento] represent the renunciation of happiness’.

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