Xavier Montsalvatge: Piano Music, Vol. 2

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Album Summary

Performer

• Jordi Masó (Piano)

Conductor

• Guillen, Francesc

Ensemble

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Composer

• Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002)

Notes & Reviews:

Xavier Montsalvatge was one of the most important composers to emerge from Catalonia in the course of the twentieth century. Where the first volume of Montsalvatge's complete piano music (NXS 8570744) covered works dating from the beginning of the composer's career to his early maturity (1933 - 66), this disc focuses on those he wrote in the last 25 years or so of his life. From El arc de Noe, the composer's response to writing a piece that children who were learning the piano would be able to play, to the huge technical demands and virtuosity of Alborada en Aurinx, this second volume showcases the Catalan composer's eclectic style, its synthesis of neoclassicism, impressionism and free use of serial technique.

"While all of these compositions are impeccable handled, the playing most effective, the pianist's notes all as they should be, and the sound engineering state-of-the-art, readers addicted to nationalistic sounds from the Iberian peninsula should be forewarned. There is little of that here, but what remains is good enough to reside in this writer's collection."-American Record Guide

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Works Details

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Alegoría a la Memoria de Joaquín Turina, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1982

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Si, a Mompou, for piano left hand

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1983

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Berceuse a la memoria de Oscar Esplá, for piano left-hand

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Una página para Rubinstein, for piano left-hand

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Montsalvatge, Xavier : El Arca de Noë (Noah's Ark), for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 6 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Schubertiada, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1993

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Pastoral d'Autome, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1995

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Dialogues in memory of Ricardo Viñes for piano :: no 3, Milonga

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Dialogues in memory of Ricardo Viñes for piano :: no 1, Impromptu en el Generalife

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Cinc ocells en llibertat, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 6 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1997

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Bressoleig, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1998

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Alborada en Aurinx, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Conductor: Francesc Guillen
• Running Time: 5 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1999

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Improviso Epilogal, for piano

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 2001

Montsalvatge, Xavier : Concerto del Albayzin, for piano & orchestra

• Performer: Jordi Masó (Piano)
• Conductor: Francesc Guillen
• Running Time: 6 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto