Enigmas: Armando Alfonso Complete Piano Works Javier Negrín

• Armando Alfonso (b. 1931): Estudio 'Juego de tresillos':
• 1 Alfonso: Estudio 'Juego de tresillos' 05:40
• Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró':
• 2 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': Tema. Lento 01:41
• 3 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': I. Lento 01:25
• 4 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': II. Lento 01:17
• 5 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': III. Moderato 01:11
• 6 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': IV. Lento 01:43
• 7 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': V. Lento 02:15
• 8 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': VI. Allegretto leggero 01:57
• 9 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': VII. Andante 01:51
• 10 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': VIII. Allegro moderato 00:47
• 11 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': IX. Andante 01:42
• 12 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': X. Tiempo de Vals 01:35
• 13 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': XI. Andante tranquilo 01:13
• 14 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': XII. Allegro 01:13
• 15 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': XIII. Moderato enérgico 01:03
• 16 Alfonso: Variaciones sobre el 'Arrorró': XIV. Allegro - Lento - Più mosso 03:55
• Albumblatt 1:
• 17 Alfonso: Albumblatt 1 03:14
• Suite para piano:
• 18 Alfonso: Suite para piano: I. Moderato rítmico 02:08
• 19 Alfonso: Suite para piano: II. Lento 03:15
• 20 Alfonso: Suite para piano: III. Ostinato 01:22
• 21 Alfonso: Suite para piano: IV. Lento 01:29
• 22 Alfonso: Suite para piano: V. Allegro 02:22
• Albumblatt 2:
• 23 Alfonso: Albumblatt 2 03:47
• Preludios para pianistas amigos:
• 24 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: I. Vivo 03:19
• 25 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: II. Moderato 02:37
• 26 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: III. Moderato 04:09
• 27 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: IV. Allegro moderato 03:31
• 28 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: V. Andante 04:44
• 29 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: VI. Moderato 03:07
• 30 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: VII. Moderato 03:30
• 31 Alfonso: Preludios para pianistas amigos: VIII. Allegro 03:12
• Total Runtime 01:16:14

Info for Enigmas: Armando Alfonso Complete Piano Works

Acclaimed pianist Javier Negrin returns to Odradek with a recital album particularly close to his heart: the complete piano music of Spanish composer Armando Alfonso, his teacher and collaborator for many years, including world-premiere recordings.

As Alfonso's former student, Javier Negrin offers the listener unique insights into this artist's music. Spanish composer-conductor Armando Alfonso is a musical polymath who has worked as a pedagogue alongside his conducting career and compositional output, some of which was inspired by his father, another great Spanish musician, Javier Alfonso. As Armando Alfonso himself writes in the album booklet: "I am probably a musician because my father, Javier Alfonso, was a pianist, composer and teacher. That is why this album, which contains a piece written in his memory, is dedicated to him. Everything I learned about the piano and music in general from my father and other teachers, I tried to pass on to Javier Negrin, who is now the interpreter of my piano works. Thus, through this album, a fruitful connection is produced between people from three different generations dedicated to the marvellous art of music."

The piece dedicated to Javier Alfonso is the 'Variaciones sobre el Arrorr' (1989), in which Armando Alfonso unfolds a series of variations in diverse styles from Renaissance counterpoint to late Romanticism. At the heart of the album, this piece is performed by Javier Negrin alongside works many of which were similarly inspired by Alfonso's fellow artists, making this a unique, deeply personal and charismatic recording.

Javier Negrin, piano

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