This page lists all recordings of Prelude No. 5 (Moderato - Dolce cantabile), by Federico Mompou (1893-1987) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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“The music of Federico Mompou may appear at first to consist of little more than charming, delicately scented but dilettantish salon near-improvisations with marked overtones of Erik Satie; but it's significant that his earliest works (in the 1920s) are imbued with a sense of mystery and wonder.
Later he was to progress from an ingenuous lyricism (in the Songs and dances) to a profounder contemplation and mysticism, to greater harmonic and keyboard complexity ( Dialogues) and finally, in the 1946-60 Paisajes ('Landscapes'), to a more experimental, less tonal idiom. In the hands of an imaginative pianist like Stephen Hough this other-worldly quality becomes revelatory.
Hough's command of tonal nuance throughout is ultra-sensitive, he catches Mompou's wistful moods to perfection, and on the rare occasions when the music lashes out, as in Prelude No 7, he's scintillating. In the more familiar Songs and dances he's tender in the songs and crisp rhythmically in the dances. He treats the 'Testament d'Amelia' in No 8 with a good deal of flexibility, and because Mompou declared (and demonstrated in his own recordings) that 'it's all so free', he takes the fullest advantage of the marking senza rigore in No 5, which reflects Mompou's lifelong fascination with bell sounds.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “In the hands of an imaginative pianist like Stephen Hough this other-worldly, almost eremitic [music] becomes revelatory. He catches Mompou's wistful moods to perfection” Gramophone Magazine “[Hough] is completely inside Mompou's fastidious, Satie-esque sound-world and understands the absorbed influences which make this music as much French as Spanish...Not even Mompou himself equalled, let alone surpassed, Hough in this repertoire.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mompou: Preludes, Canciónes y danzas & Impresiones intimas
“To achieve a maximum level of expressiveness with a minimum of means” was the defined goal of the Spanish pianist and composer Frederico Mompou. He was championed by Enrique Granados, but it was in early 1921 when his piano teacher Ferdinand Motte-Lacroix presented the works of his student to the public that Mompou made his breakthrough. These works are performed by Olena Kushpler, a Ukrainian pianist whose concert performances are regularly greeted with enthusiasm by audiences and the media. “Kushpler has a warm tone and good instincts for the music's plangency and dreamy qualities. Nor is she innocent of its tangier, dance-like vitality...One can enjoy Kushpler's performances alongside the composer's very different recordings” MusicWeb International, December 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Mompou: Cançons i danzas & Preludes
Federico Mompou is one of those composers who tends to pass under the radar. Treasured by fellow composers; beloved of pianists; in many ways more analogous in his work to a poet than a crafter of notes. He was a Catalan who quietly lived through the region’s turbulent 20th century, dying in Barcelona in 1987. He had no children, either physically or musically – no students to speak of, and few who could emulate his style which seemed to belong to any period and none. The notes themselves often come and go without fuss, leaving few traces behind, and in that sense his music inhabits the world of Fauré and Satie; the most definite trace could be said to be the composer’s own recordings, made in 1974. Although they’re not rhythmically complex, making these songs and dances sing and dance is harder than it looks. Alicia de Larrocha was at a distinct advantage, knowing the retiring composer as well as she did and having the whole of Spanish piano music under her fingers. This is a late recording of hers, suffused with light and warmth. “Mompou's perfectly wrought miniatures, filled with character and sunshine, are still under-recognised...Here they are recorded with warmth and affection.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 ***** “As one who knew Mompou well and was the dedicatee of some of his pieces (including the Prelude No.11 which was written as a wedding present for her in 1949), Alicia de Larrocha is in an almost unique position as an interpreter
of his music, of which she again shows herself here a splendid champion… Larrocha’s performances and the warm, natural recorded piano sound are both in the highest class.” Gramophone Magazine, November 1994 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Slava & Leonard Grigoryan | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Rosa Maria Kucharski (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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