This page lists all recordings of Valses Poeticos, by Enrique Granados (1867-1916) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Stephen Hough’s Spanish Album
‘I cannot imagine many piano lovers failing to fall for this delectable and all-too-brief collection of impressions, portraits and postcards. If you are not
drawn to the imaginative programme of the familiar, the brand new and the entirely unknown, then the elegant, eloquent playing of this master
pianist will surely seduce you … we are treated to some of the loveliest pianissimos and and delicate shadings you’ll hear, familiar from Hough’s
earlier Piano Albums and similar in his complete empathy with this kind of repertoire … Hough’s own On Falla has an authentic ring that should
provide him with a blistering encore for years to come … the piano sound (Andrew Keener and Simon Eadon) is as you would expect from
Hyperion’s dream team’ (Gramophone)  BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - December 2006 |
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| |  | Tom Kerstens - GoyaThe music of Granados
'Tom Kerstens is in a rather different league, he can make the guitar sound like a harp, the human voice or even an orchestra. Demonstrating the amazing expressivity of the guitar his interpretations continue to amaze.'
BBC RADIO 3 “The superb player breathes new life into familiar guitar fare.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | 40 Degrees North
Supremely talented guitarist Xuefei Yang’s second disc for EMI Classics, 40 Degrees North, comprises guitar music from Spain and China.
Xuefei Yang was not only the first guitarist in China to enter music school and later to graduate from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with a Bachelor of Arts degree, but she was also the first Chinese guitarist to study classical guitar in the West.
The disc is so titled because the capital cities of both countries lie near latitude 40 degrees north. As Yang says: “To me, this parallel has come to symbolize the connection I feel to the music of both countries.”
The Spanish repertoire includes original solo guitar compositions (such as Tárrega’s Carnival of Venice) as well as arrangements of pieces written for piano or two guitars (Albéniz’s Seguidillas). Many of these works appear in new arrangements by Yang herself.
Since China has no established guitar repertoire of its own, the Chinese pieces on this recording originate either from arrangements of traditional Chinese pieces (including two traditional Chinese folk songs arranged for guitar by Gerald Garcia), or new compositions based on Chinese themes (such as Welsh composer Stephen Goss’s Chinese Garden, written especially for Yang).
Also included on this recording is Butterfly Lovers, originally written as a violin concerto using Western orchestral instruments and arguably the best known piece of Chinese music. "From Beijing to Wimbledon, this is consummate guitar playing from a lady with no equal." Classic FM “One of the most satisfying and well thought-out classical guitar programmes I've heard in a long while… Yang's playing exhibits that kind of subtle intelligence that makes even the most disparate elements seem effortlessly to cohere.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Ratzkowski & Thomsen Guitar Duo | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 6 working days. |
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| |  | Granados - Piano Music Volume 4
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| |  | Guitar Recital: Jeffrey McFadden
Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) "Jeffrey McFadden's ability to make the guitar sing is second to none…furthermore Naxos's 1994 recording is a model of how to capture guitar sound to maximum advantage." Daily Telegraph - November 1996 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Norbert Kraft (guitar) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner "The performances seem excellent. Kraft is a sensitive, colorful guitarist, and the arranger seems a more than competent conductor"
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| |  | Spanish Guitar Recital
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| |  | Granados, Rodrigo, Asencio & Duarte: Works for Solo Guitar
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