The Flirtations
Donald Macleod explores Granados's work as a teacher and performer, and his founding of a music college, the Academia Granados.
As the structure of Barcelona changed and spread out from the gothic quarter and the harbour at the end of the 19th century, new organisations blossomed in the city, and concert life flourished. Granados played his part, starting new performance groups and organizing concerts, but his greatest achievement was the founding of a music college, the Academia Granados, in 1901. Donald Macleod looks at the ethos of the college, Granados' teaching style, and his attractiveness to his mostly female students - to hear him speaking in class was 'sheer poetry', according to one of them.
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Granados
Scarlatti transcription: Sonata No. 16
Performer: Douglas Riva (piano)
- Naxos 8.557939-40.
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Granados
Allegro de concierto
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
- RD60408.
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Granados
El pelele
Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)
- CBC MVCD 1074.
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Granados
Madrigal for vc and piano
Performer: Ramon Jaffé (cello)/ Andreas Frölich (piano)
- cpo 999 365-2.
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Granados
El mirar de la maja
Performer: Conchita Badia (soprano)/ Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
- Discos Vergara LP.
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Granados
Escenas romanticas
Performer: Uta Weyand (piano)
- Hanssler classic.
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- Tue 12 Apr 201112:00BBC Radio 3
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