Often excerpted, Isaac Albéniz's Iberia was conceived as a set and performed that way in its first incarnation. A complete performance extends well onto two CDs but reveals much to a consistent interpretation and presentation. This live performance by pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo, recorded in the composer's home city of Camprodón in Catalonia, is certainly consistent if unconventional. Tempos are quite slow, and the music's Impressionist elements are given pride of place over its flamenco rhythms. This is Spain viewed ...
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Often excerpted, Isaac Albéniz's Iberia was conceived as a set and performed that way in its first incarnation. A complete performance extends well onto two CDs but reveals much to a consistent interpretation and presentation. This live performance by pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo, recorded in the composer's home city of Camprodón in Catalonia, is certainly consistent if unconventional. Tempos are quite slow, and the music's Impressionist elements are given pride of place over its flamenco rhythms. This is Spain viewed nostalgically through an exile's lens, not the vigorous festival of guitar sounds transferred to the piano that one hears in the standard performances by Alicia de Larrocha. A unique feature of the recording, hard to distinguish on the cover in the scrawl associated with the abstract art of the packaging, is the inclusion, at the end of disc two, of alternate versions of five pieces played on Albéniz's own piano. This might seem an unacceptable extension of the historical-performance idea...
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