ALBENIZ: Recuerdos de viaje / Espagne / Azulejos / La Vega / Navarra (Guillermo Gonzalez/ Miguel Bustamante) (Naxos: 8.570553)

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Alb?®niz was a leading figure in the creation of a national style of composition in Spain. This second volume of his piano music combines the early, romantic Recuerdos de viaje, with works composed during the composer's Parisian period, which ran up to his death in 1909. Whereas in his early works Alb?®niz borrows tunes from native Spanish folk-lore, almost all of his melodies in the Parisian works are original. Here the writing is bolder and more experimental, marked by tonal ambiguity and new sonorities as in, for example, the dissonant and intricately polyphonic 'La Vega' or the technically difficult and harmonically complex 'Navarra'. Volume 1 of Guillermo Gonz?ílez's recording of the complete Alb?®niz piano music is available on Naxos 8.554311-12.