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Oscar LORENZO FERNANDEZ (1897–1948) Piano Works Suítes Brasileiras Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Prelúdios do Crepúsculo Sonata Breve Clélia Iruzun, Piano
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Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez belonged to a key group of Brazilian composers including Villa-Lobos, Mignone and Guarneri, who radically transformed the landscape of Brazilian classical music and shaped future generations of composers. Lorenzo Fernandez was essentially a miniaturist, with many of his piano pieces being both richly inventive and short in duration. From the Iberian sonorities of earlier pieces such as the expansive Noturno , via the nationalist flavours of the Suítes Brasileiras , to his final piano work, the technically challenging Sonata Breve , Lorenzo Fernandez’s refined sophistication and originality can be heard in every piece.
8.574593 Release date: 25 Jul 2025 Companion titles – The Music of Brazil series
Click to listen to Suíte Brasileira No. 1: III. Saudosa Seresta
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Manuel BLANCAFORT (1897–1987) Complete Songs, Vol. 2 Cançons de muntanya Cançons per a infants * Cançons tradicionals catalanes ** Anna Alàs i Jové, Mezzo-soprano Miquel Villalba, Piano * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING ** WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF ARRANGEMENT
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Manuel Blancafort’s music has a concise tonal directness that draws on his fondness for French composers. His Cançons are not simply evocative but embody an increasing use of the Noucentist aesthetic: the Catalan cultural movement of the early 20th century that was a reaction against Modernisme . Blancafort rejected the Romanticism and Wagnerian pathos of the modernist Lied in favour of Classicism and beauty – sentiments he shared with his Catalan contemporaries Toldrà, Gerhard and Mompou. Intimate, sensitive and playful, his Catalan songs connect both to his country’s past and also to a wider European musical culture. Key features: • Vol. 1 in this series is on 8.579012: ‘One would be hard pressed to imagine a more sympathetic interpreter of Blancafort’s songs than the impressive Catalan mezzo-soprano Anna Alas i Jové , whose keen artistry brings delicate nuance and subtle shadings to the Catalan texts’, wrote American Record Guide . • Pianist Miquel Villalba has recorded a sequence of five albums of Blancafort’s piano music. Vol. 3 is on 8.557334 and is praised in ClassicsToday.com : ‘Pianist Miquel Villalba upholds the reference standards he’s set in Volumes 1 and 2. His warm tone, sensitive ear for nuance, and utterly natural phrase shaping almost are as addictive as the music itself’.
8.579170 Release date: 25 Jul 2025 Companion titles – Spanish Classics
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Click to listen to Cançons tradicionals catalanes: Muntanyes regalades
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