Home and Away
Donald Macleod on how Granados met his wife-to-be, as well as how he found his musical voice through improvisation, public performance and research tours across Spain.
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Enrique Granados; a composer who, as much as any, presented a vision of Spain to the modern world
A quickly sketched caricature by one of history's greatest opera singers: of dark languid eyes, and a fine drooping moustache. This was how Enrico Caruso portrayed Enrique Granados. In today's programme Donald Macleod finds Granados meeting his wife to be - a story of pauper and princess if ever there was - and finding his musical voice through improvisation, public performance, and research tours across the Spanish countryside.
Tonadillas, Nos 1-7
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Spiri, piano,
El pelele (Goyescas)
Enrique Granados, piano
Valenciana (Spanish Dance No.7)
Enrique Granados, piano
Spanish Dance No.1
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Danza triste (Spanish Dance No.10)
Andres Segovia, guitar
Escenas romanticas
Uta Weyand, piano.
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Enrique Granados
Amor y odio
Performer: Anthony Spiri. Singer: Bernarda Fink.- Canciones Espanolas.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 11.
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Enrique Granados
Tonadillas… nos 2-7
Performer: Anthony Spiri. Singer: Bernarda Fink.- Canciones Espanolas.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 12.
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Enrique Granados
El Pellele
- Composers in Person.
- EMI.
- 3.
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Enrique Granados
Valenciana - Spanish Dance no. 7
- Composers in Person.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Enrique Granados
Spanish Dance No. 1
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- Doce Danzas Espanolas.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Enrique Granados
Spanish Dance No. 10
Performer: Andrés Segovia.- The Art of Andres Segovia, vol 4.
- IDIS.
- 16.
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Enrique Granados
Escenas Romanticas
Performer: Uta Weyand.- HANSSLER : CD98-414.
- HANSSLER.
- 1.
Broadcasts
- Tue 22 Mar 201612:00BBC Radio 3
- Tue 22 Mar 201618:30BBC Radio 3
- Tue 15 Aug 201718:00BBC Radio 3
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