One of the most interesting and instructive developments in opera at the turn of the twenty first century is conductor José de Eusebio's series of recordings devoted to the operas of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. Long regarded as of marginal interest owing to the clunky libretti of aspiring man-of-the-theater Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, Eusebio's careful reconstructions of Albéniz' original musical texts reveal that the music is as strong as Money-Coutts' books are weak. Eusebio has already recorded the operas Merlin ...
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One of the most interesting and instructive developments in opera at the turn of the twenty first century is conductor José de Eusebio's series of recordings devoted to the operas of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. Long regarded as of marginal interest owing to the clunky libretti of aspiring man-of-the-theater Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, Eusebio's careful reconstructions of Albéniz' original musical texts reveal that the music is as strong as Money-Coutts' books are weak. Eusebio has already recorded the operas Merlin and Henry Clifford for Deutsche Grammophon, and in this instance, Eusebio takes on the one Albéniz stage work that has gained some degree of traction in the performing repertory, Pepita Jiménez. A Spanish-language version of this work was made by Pablo Sorozábal in 1963 that effectively converts Pepita Jiménez into a zarzuela, and this version staged with some frequency in Spain, even previously recorded on a couple of occasions. However, Sorozábal changed the ending to better suit the...
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