Xiayin Wang - Enrique Granados: Goyescas, Ochos valses po�ticos, Allegro de concierto, Zapateado

A pianist of keen musicality and sweeping virtuosity, Xiayin Wang returns to solo repertoire with this fascinating exploration of works by Enrique Granados, revealing a technically challenging and complex musical language, yet full of colour and emotional intensity. Perhaps because the source of their inspiration was so close to the composer�s heart, the Goyescas piano pieces are the most liberated examples of the genius of Granados. �I have written�, he said, without exaggeration, �a collection of great sweep and difficulty�, which Xiayin Wang addresses with complete mastery. Across the repertoire featured here, this album reveals the genius of Granados, a composer of wide contrast whose music deserves to be heard more often. While the brilliance of Granados as a composer of piano music in a more conventional idiom is convincingly exemplified in the Allegro de concierto and in Zapateado, inspired by Andalusian flamenco, the Ochos Valses po�ticos are unique and uncharacteristic in that they are neither virtuosic in their piano scoring nor Spanish in style.