Granados - Goyescas & Danzas españolas

The piano suite ‘Goyescas’ first performed in Barcelona in 1911, would bring Granados his greatest, most enduring success. In each of its six pieces, the composer employs wild, insistent melody and highly individual rhythm, harmony, and coloring to create dramatic impressions of paintings by Goya, to whose work Granados was deeply drawn.

The exquisite Spanish Dances, a suite of early works, were much admired by the leading composers of the day, among them Massenet, Saint-Saens, and Grieg, not only for their distinctive musical qualities, but also for the new direction in Spanish music which they heralded. They remain today perhaps the most performed of Granados's work.

Sebastian Stanley brings exceptional playing to his new recording of Granados’ Goyescas that he couples with the Danzas espanõlas on a stunning release from EMEC Discos.