I. Albeniz: Legenda, played by Dr. Ruey Yen, 嚴瑞祥

Isaac Albéniz常被視為是19世紀後半西班牙民族樂派的代表作曲家, 其作品包括歌曲, 歌劇, 交響樂曲, 協奏曲... 但他最主要也是最好的作品是他的鋼琴獨奏曲, 而由8個不同的西班牙城(1. Granada (Serenata), 2. Cataluña (Corranda),3. Sevilla (Sevillanas), 4. Cádiz (Saeta), 5. Asturias (Leyenda), 6. Aragón (Fantasía), 7. Castilla (Seguidillas), 8. Cuba (Capricho).為名所合輯的西班牙組曲可說是 Albéniz最著名的作品. 此組曲雖原為鋼琴獨奏所寫, 但更常被改編成吉他演奏, 甚至超越原版本, 值得一題的是Albéniz並未完成與出版商協議的8首, 他只分別完成了一半, 然而出版商仍挑選之前的作品套用, 最有名的Austuria (Leyenda) 出自1891年的Cantos de España,而Cadiz其實出自於1889年的Serenata Española, 皆引用西班牙南部Andalusia的Flamenco音樂語法, 與其城名其實沒有太大的關聯.
Isaac Albéniz is one of the best-known and internationally highly esteemed Spanish musicians. His vast and varied output includes songs, operas, symphonic rhapsodies, piano concertos and choral music, but the greater part of his work -- and his best -- is made up of his music for the piano. To this repertoire he made an outstanding contribution, the main features of which could be summarised in the impressive balance between impeccable piano technique, in its demands and solutions, combined with a form of expression that is absolutely Spanish in its rhythms and melodies. The Suite Española is one of the best known of the compositions of Albéniz, not only in its original version for piano, but also in its modern orchestral arrangements, as well as in transcriptions for guitar, some of which -- particularly Granada andLeyenda -- have become even more popular than the original. In 1886, recently settled in Madrid, Albéniz and the publisher Benito Zozaya agreed on the publication of a Suite Espagnole that would include eight pieces with titles linking them to several Spanish towns or regions. The individual publication of these pieces began in the same year, but the title-pages of each one included the complete plan and titles and subtitles of all the pieces, 1. Granada (Serenata), 2. Cataluña (Corranda),3. Sevilla (Sevillanas), 4. Cádiz (Saeta), 5. Asturias (Leyenda), 6. Aragón (Fantasía), 7. Castilla (Seguidillas), 8. Cuba (Capricho). Clearly this is a collection that covers the different rhythms and melodies of Spain, from North to South and East to West, as well as Cuba, then still under Spanish rule, the sensuous rhythms and melodies of which had captivated the young Albéniz when he visited the island to give some concerts. In the event only four of the planned pieces, numbers 1, 2, 3 and 8, were published. For reasons unknown the project was dropped and there was a lapse of almost twenty years until it was completed by another publisher -- by then Zozoya's publishing-house had disappeared -- with other pieces that Albéniz had composed on different occasions and under other titles. Consequently the music of Cádiz is the same as that of theSerenata Española of 1889, Asturias is really the Preludio of the Cantos de España of 1891-1894, a collection to which theSeguidillas also belongs, a piece that appears in the present suite under the title Castilla. Aragón is one of the Dos danza, españolas published in 1889.

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