Alicia de Larrocha: Valses Poeticos - Part 1 (Granados)

Alicia de Larrocha (1923 - 2009) performs Valses Poeticos, by Enrique Granados. This performance originally was recorded by Hispavox circa 1961, then distributed in 1974 under the Musical Heritage Society label (MHS 1870).

Part 1

Introduction
1. Melodico
2. Tempo de Vals Noble
3. Tempo de Vals Lento

You can read this great musician's obituary in the New York Times here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/music/26larrocha.html

You also can view the Library of Congress catalog entry for this LP here: http://lccn.loc.gov/74750137

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Alicia de Larrocha
• Musical Heritage Society
• MHS 1870
• Granados
• Enrique Granados
• Valses Poeticos
• Hispavox
• Melodico
• Tempo de Vals Noble
• Tempo de Vals Lento

[abmsghost1]

Marvelous musicmaking from both.

[PianoCussoSFHA]

Perfección absoluta

[davidhertzberg]

@otirudam Thank you, I could not have said it better myself. regards, david (writing from my new channel, where I have a lot more A. de Larrocha)

[otirudam]

People refer to the Wonders of the World (generally seven in number, like the Pyramid of Giza or the Rodhes Colossus, etc.), but to our age Alicia de Larrocha playing Granados and Albeniz piano music, should be considered a Wonder of the World. Here both composer and performer fuse together to form a ravishing ray of magnificent light, hardly ever seen in the human horizon.

[brtherjohn]

I have this old record! And other Hispavox recordings issued under the MHS label like the other Granados and Albeniz recordings + de Falla and Turina - and non-Spanish repertoire. Interesting to listen to the vinyl recordings again after so many years. (At least your lp copies did not suffer like mine with issues with pre-echo.) And the French remastering of these recordings for CD on EMI did a bit of disservice as well with regards to the audio quality.