Riccardo Schwartz - Font y de Anta: Andalucía (2018)
FLAC (tracks) | 1:11:10 | 227 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics
Manuel Font y de Anta (1895-1936) was a Spanish composer, born in Sevilla (Andalucia, Spain). He studied with Joaquin Turina. Manuel Font y de Anta’s masterwork is “Andalucía”, a cycle of 9 piano pieces issued in 3 books, one of the great Spanish piano cycles, together with Iberia by Albeniz and Goyescas by Granados. The 9 pieces of Andalucía are titled after the neighbourhoods of the cities of Andalucia: Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada, Malaga, Cordoba, Cadiz. They are evocations of the sounds, perfumes, lights, shadows and the mystic atmospheres of Andalucía’s secret places, capturing the essence of the Andalucían soul. The piano writing is elaborate, highly virtuosic and complex, extracting wonderful sonorities from the piano.