Comellas / Lopez - Jose Comellas: Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In this second volume of his survey of Cuban composers for the piano, Jose Raul Lopez presents the work of Nicolas Ruiz Espadero (1832-90), the most prominent name in Cuban music in the second half of the nineteenth century, both at home and abroad. Espadero's output ranges from delicate Chopinesque salon miniatures to barnstorming Lisztian operatic paraphrases that demand a fearsome virtuoso technique to do justice to their high-Romantic swagger. José R. López is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Keyboard Studies Program at Florida International University in Miami. Dr. López is the President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Liszt Society, inaugurated in 2010 at FIU and was recently appointed Honorary Secretary of The Alkan Society, based in London. He has performed throughout the United States, Italy and Central and South America with orchestras, in solo recitals, and with chamber groups in summer festivals such as the Music Festival of the Hamptons in New York and the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Active throughout South Florida, he has been a featured performer in the Florida International University's Music Festival; ISCM New Music Miami Festival, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Coral Gables' Mainly Mozart Series, University of Miami's Miami Festival, and as founder and co-director of the Deering Estate at Cutler's InchChamber Concert Series,Inch entering it's 12th year. Album Tracks 1. 5 Grands Transcriptions, No. 5, La traviata 2. Preludio 3. 5 Grands Transcriptions, No. 3 Un ballo in maschera, Op. 46 4. Innocence-caprice, Op. 23 5. 5 Grands Transcriptions, No. 1 Poliuto 6. 5 Grands Transcriptions, No. 2 Faust, Op. 51 7. Pureza y calma 8. Ossian Polka 9. Sur la tombe de Gottschalk, Op. 68 10. Valse idéale, Op. 60 11. Souvenir d’autrefois (Nocturne), Op. 11 12. 5 Grands Transcriptions, No. 4 Il trov

Italian composer Riccardo Malipiero (1914-2003) was the nephew of Gian Francesco Malipiero. He was a pioneer of twelve-tone technique in Italy. His 6 published piano works encapsulate half-a-century of development, from the post-Respighian 14 variazioni (1938), to the classicism of Diario second (1985). This is the first-ever recording of this music. Album Tracks 1. Calmo 2. Stesso Tempo 3. Poco Più 4. Presto Molto 5. Meno 6. Più Calmo Ancora 7. Lento 8. Poco Più Lento 9. Lo Stesso Ma Liberamente 10. Veloce 11. Come L'inizio 12. Più Rapido 13. Lento 14. Rapido 15. No. 1 Moderato 16. No. 2 Lento - Un Poco Più Lento 17. No. 3 Mosso - Lento, Quasi Senza Tempo - Tempo I 18. Mosso 19. Lento Molto 20. Veloce 21. Allegramente 22. Piacevolmente 23. Deciso 24. Lento 25. Grave 26. Allegramente 27. Bars 1-28 28. Bars 29-48 29. Bars 49-69 30. Bars 70-79 31. Bars 80-86 32. Bars 87-91 33. Bars 92-94 34. Bars 95-105 35. Bars 106-112 36. Bars 113-117 37. Bars 118-137 38. Bars 138-143 39. Bars 144-152 40. No. 1 Allegramente 41. No. 2 Mesto 42. No. 3 Spigliato 43. No. 4 Lento 44. No. 5 Spiritoso 45. No. 6 Lento 46. No. 7 Presto 47. Preludio 48. Passacaglia 49. Finale

Album Tracks 1. Fantasy-Waltzes (1956) 2. Twelve Preludes (1959)