Composer(s): Casablancas, Benet
Label: Naxos
Series: Spanish Classics
Genre: Instrumental
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.570757
Barcode: 0747313075775
Release Date: 06/2008

CASABLANCAS, B.: Piano Music (Maso)

Benet Casablancas is one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation. His music, though firmly rooted in the great classical tradition, in particular the Second Viennese School, is notable for its great individuality, structural complexity and extraordinary richness of textural detail. This recording brings together almost all the piano works of Casablancas, from the early Prelude and Fugue in C, followed ten years later by the richly polyphonic triptych, Three Pieces for piano, to the Three Bagatelles, which balance brilliant virtuosity with the sonorous delicacy of impressionistic inspiration, to the composer’s most recent work, written especially for this recording, Tre Divertimenti for piano for four hands.

Tracklist

Casablancas, Benet
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
1 No. 1. Intrada, "Capriccioso": Con anim ma tenuto 02:36
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
2 No. 2. Intermezzo, "Notturno": Lentissimo 04:14
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
3 No. 3. Finale: Giocoso 03:16
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
4 No. 1. Adagio 02:07
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
5 No. 2. Vivo 01:52
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
6 Fulla d'album, "Variacion sobre un tema de F. Schubert" 04:49
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
7 I. Joc (Play): Scherzando e comodo 00:37
Masó, Jordi (piano)
8 II. Canco (Song): Andantino 01:11
Masó, Jordi (piano)
9 III. Dansa (Dance): Con moto e festivo 00:31
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
10 No. 1. Larghetto cantabile 03:03
Masó, Jordi (piano)
11 No. 2. Poco allegro - Quasi furioso 03:21
Masó, Jordi (piano)
12 No. 3. Quasi Epilogo: Grave 04:24
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
13 Scherzo 07:00
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
14 No. 1. Con moto (For the left hand) 01:11
Masó, Jordi (piano)
15 No. 2. Lento 01:42
Masó, Jordi (piano)
16 No. 3. Comodo: Moderato 00:32
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
17 Tombeau 03:26
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Masó, Jordi (piano)
18 No. 1. Energico e tenuto sempre 00:52
Masó, Jordi (piano)
19 No. 2. Scherzino 00:30
Masó, Jordi (piano)
20 No. 3. Moderato: Poco capricioso 02:07
Masó, Jordi (piano)
21 No. 4. Con moto 01:16
Masó, Jordi (piano)
22 No. 5. Lento: Con intensita 02:51
Masó, Jordi (piano)
23 No. 6. Con moto e impetuoso 01:01
Masó, Jordi (piano)
24 No. 7. Finale: Quasi giga e scherzando 00:41
Masó, Jordi (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
25 Prelude: Poco andante e tenuto 01:46
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
26 Fugue: Poco grave 03:07
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
27 No. 1. Moderato 06:16
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
28 No. 2. Andantino 05:10
Villalba, Miquel (piano)
29 No. 3. Finale: Burleska 05:44
Villalba, Miquel (piano)

Total Playing Time: 01:17:13