Federico Mompou: Selected Works Volume I

Released 2014 | SOMM Recordings

Tracklist

Total CD Time: 71 minutes

Cançons i Danses (1921-1962)
[1]- I (1921) (4:01)
[2]- II (1918-1924)
[3]- 40 3- III (1926) (3:55)
[4]- IV (1928) (4:12)
[5]- V (1942) (4:13)
[6]- VI (1942) (3:58)
Pessebres (1914-1917)
[7]- Dansa (2:04)
[8]- L’ermita (2:17)
[9]- El pastor (2:23)

Impresiones Intimas (1911-1914)
[10] Plany I (1:02)
[11] Plany II (1:32)
[12] Plany III (0:31)
[13] Plany IV (1:19)
[14] Pájaro triste (2:57)
[15] La barca (1:47)
[16] Cuna (2:55)
[17] Secreto (2:53)
[18] Gitano (2:30)

Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin (1938-1957)
[19] Thème- Andantino(1:00)
[20] Variation I- Tranquillo e molto amabile(0:59)
[21] Variation II-Gracioso(0:53)
[22] Variation III-Lento (pour la main gauche)(1:26)
[23] Variation IV-Espressivo(1:23)
[24] Variation V-Tempo di Mazurka(1:12)
[25] Variation VI-Recitativo-Lento(1:51)
[26] Variation VII-Allegro leggiero(0:49)
[27] Variation VIII-Andante dolce e espressivo(2:52)
[28] Variation IX-Valse(1:58)
[29] Variation X-Évocation(3:09)
[30] Variation XI-Lento dolce e legato(2:29)
[31] Variation XII-Galope y Epilogo(2:03)
[32] Epilogo-Lento(1:13)

Reviews

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“How memorably she understands the way so much of the music retreats from its short-lived gaiety into confidentiality…Her way with Chopin’s A Major Prelude (the launch of the Chopin Variations) is sufficiently poised to make you long to hear her in the other 23 Preludes, and in Variation 8 (the expressive core of the work)and in a later ghostly memory of Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu, her poetic empathy is total…A memorable issue.”
Bryce Morrison, Gramophone Magazine, March 2013
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/mompou-piano-works-vol-1

“…there is the Variations on a theme of Chopin…this charming, genial set of variations form character pieces of great directness and consistency. They also sound highly attractive, not least in a performance such as this.[…]this is another Mompou entrant that one can encounter with confidence.”
Musicweb, March 2013
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Mar13/Mompou_piano_v1_SOMMCD0121.htm

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