It may be that someone buying this album and expecting something like excerpts from Carmen played on the piano would be disappointed, for there are just a few examples of the fiery side of Spanish music included. Most of the pieces evoke, in the words of annotator Bruce Morrison, the "music of the night" of Spain, and of the Iberian peninsula's reflective religious heritage. Taken on its own terms, however, the album offers a fascinating group of perspectives on Spanish music, with a program that brings together music of ...
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It may be that someone buying this album and expecting something like excerpts from Carmen played on the piano would be disappointed, for there are just a few examples of the fiery side of Spanish music included. Most of the pieces evoke, in the words of annotator Bruce Morrison, the "music of the night" of Spain, and of the Iberian peninsula's reflective religious heritage. Taken on its own terms, however, the album offers a fascinating group of perspectives on Spanish music, with a program that brings together music of different periods in a mysteriously effective synthesis. The opening group of works, covering a century and a half from Soler to Mompou, seems animated by a single impulse -- and when that happens, it is the performer who is due the credit. Some would object to the classification of Mompou, who titled some of his works in the Catalan language, as Spanish, but that too is part of the complex picture Stephen Hough is painting here, and Mompou's almost minimal works draw the listener...
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