De pianokwintetten van Enrique Granados en Joaquín Turina Pérez worden zelden uitgevoerd. Dat ze samen met een Caliope uit Las musas de Andalucia op hetzelfde album verschijnen, is al meer dan zeventig jaar geleden. Javier Perianes speelt met Cuarteto Quiroga op voortreffelijke wijze de Spaans getinte muziek met een Franse inslag. Beide werken werden rond 1900 (Granados 1895 en Turina 1907) geschreven. Zowel de Catelaan Granados (die door zijn landgenoten ook wel de Spaanse Chopin of ‘onze Schubert’ wordt genoemd) als de uit Andalusië afkomstige Turina studeerden in Parijs waardoor de Franse tijdsgeest in beide pianokwintetten voelbaar is. De essentie van de muziek is Spaans, ritmisch, temperamentvol en romantisch.
Granados & Turina: Piano Quintets
Granados:
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 49
Turina:
Piano Quintet in G Minor Op. 1
Caliope (hymn from Las musas de Andalucia, Op. 93, No. 9)
Cuarteto Quiroga: Aitor Hevia (violin), Cibrán Sierra (violin), Josep Puchades (viola), Helena Poggio (cello) & Javier Perianes (piano)
We have had to wait more than70 years to hear these three rarely performed pieces by Spanish masters on the same recording. Two of them are quintets written over a century ago, early in the respective careers of Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina, which won them recognition both nationally and internationally.Written a dozen years apart (1895-1907), these two piano quintets display multiple affinities with the French chamber music of the period. At the same time, these masterpieces that are played all too rarely bear witness to the vitality of Spanish music at the dawn of the new century.
An ideal coupling, revealing the fertile imagination of the two Andalusian composers and their total mastery of the genre. The Cuarteto Quiroga, recently appointed quartet-in-residence in charge of the Royal Collection of decorated Stradivarius at Madrid’s Royal Palace, has established itself as one of the most dynamic and interesting quartets of its generation. The quartet has won international acclaim from critics and audiences alike for its distinctive personality as well as its bold and original approach to the string quartet repertory. It takes its name from the Galician violinist Manuel Quiroga, one of the most outstanding string players in Spanish musical history alongside Pau Casals and Pablo Sarasate. Based in Madrid, at the Fundación Museo Cerralbo with the position of quartet in residence, its four members have released two recordings on Dutch label Cobra: ‘Statements’ and ‘(R)evolutions’, both of which won awards in the international press.
