Wednesday 8 March 2017

Enchantment

Here's a lovely bit of pianistic enchantment from Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli, playing one of the Canciones y Danzas of Federico Mompou, a Catalan composer I only recently became aware of. This piece is so simple, so delicate, but so rich in beauty...


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  1. Waldonymous8 March 2017 at 22:09

    Thanks, Nige! You've reminded me to dig out my CD of Stephen Hough playing Mompou. During the late 1990's, I spent a lot of time traveling by train between Paris, London, Cambridge and Norwich, and that CD was in constant rotation on my good old Sony Discman.

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  2. mahlerman9 March 2017 at 09:10

    The key to the apparent simplicity in Mompou's music is a complete absence of what they call here in Spain 'el amor propio - if you like, 'self-regard'. And Hough is surely Waldonymous, the natural successor of Michelangeli in his ability to express this vapourous music?

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  3. Nige9 March 2017 at 10:15

    Yes - partly because of that absence, he seems the least Spanish of Spaniards (OK, Catalans) - much more in the French line - Debussy, Satie, Ravel... I must see if I can get that CD.

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    1. malty11 March 2017 at 15:43

      Nige....Presto Classical...Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: The Master Pianist

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  4. Nige12 March 2017 at 10:16

    Thanks Malty - I can't find a CD of that title exactly...? Have just got the Stephen Hough Mompou CD though - looking forward to that...

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