Federico Mompou: Klavierwerke (CD)

Federico Mompou (1893-1987)

Stephen Hough

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Cancion y Danza 1, 3, 5, 7-9; Preludes 1, 5-7, 9, 10; Paisajes; Dialogues I & II; 3 Variations; Charmes; Cants Magics

Artists:: Stephen Hough (Klavier)
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 1996
Item number:: 8169576
UPC/EAN:: 0034571169637
Release date:: 4.8.1997

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Without a spirit of childhood in the listener, the music of the Catalan Federico Mompou can seem almost infantile. The style the composer himself calls 'primitivista' involves no bar lines, key signatures or other such paraphernalia of 'organized' composition, and at first sight owes much to Satie. However the latter's cynicism here finds expression in genuine innocence and wonder.

The titles of the four complete sets recorded here give some impression of what is to be expected: Cants Mágics, Charmes … but these titles can also be unhelpful, implying order when none is meant; the Cancións y Danzas are not part of a set as such, and the six examples here span some three decades.

All of these miniatures (the longest is under six minutes) capture a world that is at once very real (Mompou describes his 'favourite place' as being the 'solitude of all large towns') and yet somehow set at a distance from the mundane through piano writing of plain and unpretentious vision.

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'Pianism of a very high order indeed, backed up by a recording of beautiful limpidity. Spellbinding music, immaculately performed' (Classic CD)

'A real treat ... utterly compelling playing with a recording to match' (Gramophone)

'Altogether outstanding in every way' (Gramophone)

'Perhaps the most significant piano release of the year' (The Independent)

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Cancion y Danza Nr. 7
2 Prélude Nr. 1

Cants mágics (5 Stücke für Klavier)

3 Energic
4 Obscur
5 Profond: Lent
6 Misteriós
7 Calma

8 Cancion y Danza Nr. 5
9 Prélude Nr. 5

Charmes Nr. 1-6

10 pour endormir la souffrance
11 pour pénétrer les ames
12 pour inspirer l'amour
13 pour les guérisons
14 pour évoquer I'image du passé
15 pour appeler la joie

16 Cancion y Danza Nr. 8
17 Prelude Nr. 7 (Feuerwerk)

Variations 1-3

18 Theme
19 les soldats
20 courtoisie
21 Nocturne

22 Cancion y Danza Nr. 3
23 Prélude Nr. 9

Dialogues (2 Stücke für Klavier)

24 Plaintif
25 Modéré

26 Cancion y Danza Nr. 1
27 Prélude Nr. 10

Paisajes (3 Stücke für Klavier)

28 La fuente y la campana
29 El Lago
30 Carros de Galicia

31 Cancion y Danza Nr. 9
32 Prélude Nr. 6 (für die linke Hand)

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