Albeniz & Granados - Romantic Piano Concerto 6

Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion�s Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albeniz Concierto fantastico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the Iberian peninsula; the perennially popular Rapsodia espanola, on the other hand, throws all such classical models to the wind.Granados never actually got round to writing his piano concerto, so our pianist here�Hyperion debutant Melani Mestre�has done it for him. And it�s a romp. The first movement is pretty much �echt�, from Granados� sketches for a putative piano concerto, but thereafter it�s a hugely enjoyable what-if �