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Mompou: Piano Music - Canciones y Danzas, Preludes etc. '1997

Stephen Hough

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01. Canción y Danza No. 7

02. Prelude No. 1

03. Cants Màgics: I. Energic

04. Cants Màgics: II. Obscur

05. Cants Màgics: III. Profond: Lent

06. Cants Màgics: IV. Misteriós

07. Cants Màgics: V. Calma

08. Canción y Danza No. 5

09. Prelude No. 5

10. Charmes: I. … pour endormir la souffrance

11. Charmes: II. … pour pénétrer les âmes

12. Charmes: III. … pour inspirer l'amour

13. Charmes: IV. … pour les guérisons

14. Charmes: V. … pour évoquer l'image du passé

15. Charmes: VI. … pour appeler la joie

16. Canción y Danza No. 8

17. Prelude No. 7 "Palmier d'étoiles"

18. 3 Variations: Theme. [Untitled]

19. 3 Variations: Var. 1. Les soldats

20. 3 Variations: Var. 2. Courtoisie

21. 3 Variations: Var. 3. Nocturne

22. Canción y Danza No. 3

23. Prelude No. 9

24. Dialogues I, II: I. Plaintif

25. Dialogues I, II: II. Modéré

26. Canción y Danza No. 1

27. Prelude No. 10

28. Paisajes: I. La fuente y la campana

29. Paisajes: II. El Lago

30. Paisajes: III. Carros de Galicia

31. Canción y Danza No. 9

32. Prelude No. 6

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.

Mompou: Piano Music - Canciones y Danzas, Preludes etc. '1997

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