Granados: Allegro de Concierto, Danzas Españolas (reference recording: José Iturbi / Remastered)

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Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) Piano Worrks by José Iturbi
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Piano Works by José Iturbi
00:00 Danza Española No. 5 in E minor, IEG 6: Andaluza (2024 Remastered, Paris 1959)
04:13 Danza Española No. 10 in G Major, IEG 6: Danza Triste, Melancólica (2024 Remastered, Paris 1959)
08:12 Danza Española No. 12 in A minor, IEG 6: Bolero, Arabesca (2024 Remastered, Paris 1959)
13:58 Allegro de Concierto in C-sharp Major, Op. 46 (2024 Remastered, Paris 1959)

Piano: José Iturbi
Recorded in 1959, at Paris
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Hollywood had good taste in pianists: Oscar Levant and José Iturbi were consummate virtuosos and real personalities. If Iturbi's features, as distinctive as Levant's, earned him some juicy, often humorous, jobs as a team player, his Latin lover physique meant he could play more than bit parts, as Holiday in Mexico proves. But his main claim to celebrity in films is as the hands of Chopin in A Song to Remember, and this fame, far from being a drawback, made him an essential actor on the American musical scene.

Born on 28 November 1895 in Valencia, he naturally received his excellent initial piano training at the conservatoire in his hometown, where he was a favorite pupil of the formidable Joaquín Malats. For pleasure as well as necessity, Iturbi was playing in the cafés of Valencia when he was barely ten years old. There he was discovered by an astonished Emil von Sauer, who somehow managed to raise the necessary funds to send the young man to the Paris Conservatoire. He entered the class of Victor Staub, a follower of Marmontel and Diémer: Iturbi refined his style, worked a lot on Chopin, and honed his technique by comparing and contrasting it with the French school, with high, loose wrists and pearly touch. This was just the enhanced elegance needed to give a polish to the dazzling range of colors which his pianism seemed to have naturally at its disposal. His efforts were rewarded in 1913 with a Premier Prix, quickly pocketed before a hasty return to Barcelona at the beginning of 1914: the Great War was approaching.

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The LPs he recorded in Paris at the end of the '50s display his genius for almost pictorial expression. This has hardly dimmed with time; on the contrary, we notice everywhere a rhythmic vivacity, a brio and an imagination that give his Ravel performances a frank sensuality. And Iturbi makes the Spanish pieces sound almost like flamenco: listen to the stamping and the impish fantasy in his Albéniz, the full-blooded elegance in Granados's Allegro de concierto. /José Iturbi possesses a truly infinite palette of colors and sounds, and, like Alicia de Larrocha, interprets the music of his country to perfection./ (...) Since 28 June 1980 he has rested at the Holy Cross Cemetery outside Hollywood. Jean-Charles Hoffelé

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