Isaac Albeniz - Piano Music Vol. 2 Recuerdos de viaje/Espagne/Azulejos/La Vega/Navarra (Naxos Audio CD)

Albéniz was a leading figure in the creation of a national style of composition in Spain.

This second volume of his piano music combines the early, romantic Recuerdos de viaje, with works composed during the composer’s Parisian period, which ran up to his death in 1909. Whereas in his early works Albéniz borrows tunes from native Spanish folk-lore, almost all of his melodies in the Parisian works are original. Here the writing is bolder and more experimental, marked by tonal ambiguity and new sonorities as in, for example, the dissonant and intricately polyphonic La Vega or the technically difficult and harmonically complex Navarra.

Volume 1 of Guillermo González’s recording of the complete Albéniz piano music is available on Naxos 8.554311-12.

Isaac Albeniz

Recuerdos de viaje

Gonzalez, Guillermo, piano


I. En el mar 00:04:29
II. Leyenda 00:04:15
III. Alborada 00:04:47
IV. En la Alambra 00:04:16
V. Puerta de Tierra 00:03:44
VI. Rumores de la Caleta 00:04:03
VII. En la playa 00:04:22
Espagne (Souvenirs)

Gonzalez, Guillermo, piano


I. Prelude 00:06:47
II. Asturias 00:03:54
Azulejos

Gonzalez, Guillermo, piano


Azulejos 00:10:04
La Vega, "Fantaisie espagnole"

Gonzalez, Guillermo, piano


La Vega, "Fantaisie espagnole" 00:15:30
Navarra (fragment, completed by D. de Severac)

Gonzalez, Guillermo, piano


Navarra (fragment, completed by D. de Severac) 00:06:12



Total Playing Time: 01:12:23