Description
Title: Granados: Goyescas
Artist: Dina Stojilkovic
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203567720
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-06-27
Number of Discs: 1
After completing his Goyescas, the pianist and composer Enrique Granados wrote that he had happily succeeded in “”writing something significant””. And who would want to contradict him? The six scenes, some of them very extensive, are based on drawings by the great Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya. They form a cycle that is glowing with inspiration from the first to the last bar, and whose technical difficulties achieve the kind of transcendence that Franz Liszt in particular had achieved in the 19th century. His technical prowess is entirely devoted to picturesque and highly emotional expression, from humorous whimsy to the most grave of tragedies. The young Dina Stojilkovic has recorded Goyescas for cpo on a Steinway B built in 1895, an instrument that Granados might well have had under his virtuoso fingers at the time.
Tracks:
1.1 Goyescas Op. 11~Book I: Los requiebros (The Flirtations)
1.2 Goyescas Op. 11~Book I: Coloquio en la reja (Conversation at the Window)
1.3 Goyescas Op. 11~Book I: El fandango de candil (Fandango by Oil Lamp)
1.4 Goyescas Op. 11~Book I: Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale)
1.5 Goyescas Op. 11~Book II: El Amor y la muerte (Balada) (Ballad of Love and Death)
1.6 Goyescas Op. 11~Book II: Epilogo (Serenata del espectro) (Epilogue: The Ghost”s Serenade)
1.7 Pelele (Escena Goyesca) (The Straw Man: Goya Scene)
