Albéniz: Piano Music

Classic accounts of Spanish piano masterpieces by a major if undervalued pianist from the 1960s and 70s.

Composer: Isaac Albéniz
Artists: Esteban Sánchez (piano)

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The French piano luminary Alfred Cortot declared Esteban Sánchez Herrero (1934-1997) to be a ‘musical genius’. Clara Haskil numbered among their colleagues who thought likewise, and Daniel Barenboim wrote: ‘How is it possible? How can Spain have hidden away a performer of this class?’ But Sanchez, born in Badajoz in 1934, shrank from the limelight even after winning several prestigious piano competitions. Having settled back into his native province as a teacher at the Badajoz conservatoire from 1978, he rarely travelled abroad, leaving a series of recordings made in Barcelona between 1968 and 1974 as his most lasting musical legacy.

The highlight of that legacy is widely recognised to be Sanchez’s recording of Iberia, that quintessential masterpiece of Spanish pianism. While Alicia de Larrocha’s name remains indelibly associated with Albéniz’s cycle and its post-Lisztian evocations of folk legends and urban life, Sanchez brought to this music an unrivalled sense of fantasy as well as muscularity. The booklet for this reissue includes an outline of Sanchez’s career, a detailed essay on Iberia and a critical appreciation of both his pianism and its harmonious match with the music of Albéniz.

‘The Catalan composer’s great music is always a personal expression,’ writes the veteran critic Luis Gago, ‘whether it is the memory of a landscape, the perception of a rhythm, or an experience which he could not forget.

Tracklist:
Iberia, Book I:
00:00:00 Evocación
00:05:33El Puerto
00:09:43 Corpus Christi en Sevilla

Iberia, Book II:
00:18:18 Rondena
00:25:09 Almería
00:35:12 Triana

Piano Sonata No. 5 in G-Flat Major:
00:40:53 Allegro non troppo
00:48:11 Minueto del Gallo
00:50:24 Rêverie, andante
00:57:33 Allegro

01:00:02 Pavana - Capricho
01:04:32 Tango, in A Minor
01:09:08 Torre Bermeja

Iberia, Book III:
01:13:26 El Albaicín
01:20:58 El polo
01:27:36 Lavapiés

Iberia, Book IV:
01:35:07 Málaga
01:40:28 Jerez
01:50:16 Eritana
01:55:57 Recuerdos de Viaje:
02:00:37 En el mar
02:04:55 Leyenda, barcarola
02:09:22 Alborada
02:13:40 En La Alhambra
02:17:18 Puerta de Tierra
02:21:01 Rumores de La Caleta
02:24:57 En la playa

Espana, Seis hojas de álbum:
02:26:53 Preludio
02:29:43 Tango
02:33:54 Malaguena
02:37:17 Serenata
02:39:44 Capricho catalán
02:42:01 Zortzico

Suite Espanola:
02:47:55 Asturias
02:54:02 Córdoba
02:58:34 Cádiz
03:03:20 Granada
03:06:23 Castilla
03:11:18 Cuba
03:17:27 Mallorca
03:22:27 Sevilla

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