Lecuona: Andalucia, Danzas Afrocubanas, Ante el Escorial & Other Piano Works Marcos Madrigal

• Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (1895–1963)
• 1 Ante el Escorial (Ben moderato - Più mosso - Moderato - Vivace) 05:01
• 2 Preludio en la Noche (Adagio) 02:43
• Danzas Afrocubanas
• 3 La Conga de Medianoche (Allegro) 03:18
• 4 La Comparsa (Moderato) 01:49
• 5 Danza Negra (Moderato ben marcato - Più mosso - Tempo primo) 02:32
• 6 Danza Lucumí (Moderato) 02:47
• 7 Danzas de los Ñáñigos (Ben moderato) 02:33
• 8 ...Y la Negra Bailaba (Allegro moderato) 02:28
• La Primera en la Frente (Allegro)
• 9 La Primera en la Frente (Allegro) 01:40
• 10 Ella y Yo (Allegro moderato) 02:00
• 11 Interrumpida (Allegro moderato) 01:10
• 12 La Cardenense (Moderato - Moderato - Tempo primo - Lento) 01:49
• 13 A la Antigua (Moderato - Scherzando) 02:20
• 14 Al Fin Te Vi (Allegro vivace) 01:24
• En Tres Por Cuatro (Allegro maestoso)
• 15 En Tres Por Cuatro (Allegro maestoso) 02:04
• Andalucía
• 16 I. Cordoba (Allegro moderato - Moderato - Tempo primo - Lento) 03:49
• 17 II. Andaluza (Allegro vivace - Molto vivace - Tempo primo) 03:00
• 18 III. Alhambra (Allegro vivace - Lento ma non troppo - Allegro tempo primo - Vivace) 04:22
• 19 IV. Gitanerías (Presto) 01:51
• 20 V. Guadalquivir (Allegro moderato) 04:59
• 21 VI. Malagueña (Allegro moderato - Vivace - Lento a la capriccio - Moderato - Più mosso - Vivace) 04:03
• Total Runtime 57:42

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It is always a privilege to listen to any selection prepared by the pianist Marcos Madrigal. His probing intellect and profound study of styles, his way of playing, his knowledge of the period of chosen works, his consultation of different editions... everything about his approach to the music is transformed into a sublime ritual, to which one can add the quality of his extraordinary technical and expressive command of the instrument.

In Cuba he has always been considered a young pianist of great talent. Now, after a period of prolonged study at the International Piano Academy Lake Como and at the University of Music in Lugano as a “Lieven Scholar”, under the invaluable guide of William Grant Nabore, he has become an important artist in the world of pianistic interpretation of today. This present collection takes on a more important meaning because apart from Madrigal’s mastery these works are also part of his cultural heritage. In these pieces he interrogates each inner element, every syncopation and time change.

The present collection is only a part of the abundant solo piano production of the Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona Casado (Guanabacoa, Cuba, 1895 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 1963), heir to the composers Manuel Saumell (1817-1870) and Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905), who dedicated themselves to developing pianistic miniatures, especially of the dance, transforming it into the nationalist emblem during the second half of the 19th century.

Saumell and Cervantes, together with Juan Federico Edelmann (1795-1848), Nicolas Ruiz Espadero (1832-1890), José Manuel ‘Lico’ Jimenez (1851-1917), Pablo Desvernine (1823-1890) and other names recently brought to light by Cuban historians, like the Spaniard Clemente Peichler, were creators of an 18th-century style found on the Island, in particular in regards to the language of the piano, whose fundamental place was in the home and salons of the middle class.

The tradition formed by these composers before Lecuona and classified as “Romantic” remains clearly defined on many occasions, and in very similar musical structures: dances for the piano that were made up of two symmetrical parts from recurrent melodic structures, with a melodic supremacy over an accompaniment and with descriptive extra musical titles very much in evidence, sometimes even onomatopoeic.

Marcos Madrigal, piano

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