Mac McClure's admiration for the music of Federico Mompou and his like-minded friends is sincere, and his comprehensive understanding of their work is remarkable for an American pianist. Yet despite his earnest intentions and eagerness to promote this little-played music, he may have miscalculated the effect of placing Mompou's rarefied and ...
Andrés Segovia is one of those names everyone knows, but with the arrival of new superstar guitarists on the scene, not one of which would have had a career without Segovia's influence, his music-making is not so much heard anymore. The newcomer to his music, especially, is faced with a confusing series of overlapping reissues when searching ...
Many of the recordings on this EMI compilation have been well loved since the 1960s, and rightly so. They are some of the best recordings of Spanish songs ever made, by the genre's most distinctive voice, Victoria de los Angeles. De los Angeles could sing almost anything, from Cio-Cio-San to Brahms lieder, beautifully; but there was always a bit ...
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