Raphaël Feuillâtre - Spanish Serenades (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

When Raphaël Feuillâtre was given the opportunity to play guitars owned by three of Spain’s finest composers, he jumped at the chance. For his second Deutsche Grammophon album, Spanish Serenades, he has created a programme built around works by Albéniz, Llobet and Tárrega, adding others by their compatriots Granados and Rodrigo. A talented and prolific arranger, Feuillâtre plays five of his own inventive transcriptions of works for solo piano. These include Granados’s Andaluza, which he performs with violinist and fellow DG artist María Dueñas. Spanish Serenades also features the French guitarist’s first recordings with orchestra – he is joined by the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy, in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

Guitar aficionados can enjoy the complete album from 6 June 2025, when it is issued digitally. Feuillâtre’s interpretation of Llobet’s Lo fill del rei will be available to stream/download from 9 May, followed on 23 May by his transcription of Granados’s Epílogo.

Through the generosity of several different collectors, Feuillâtre was lent guitars owned by Albéniz, Llobet and Tárrega for this recording, and began planning a tracklist by selecting works by these three influential figures of the Spanish classical world.

Known as the “Sarasate of the guitar”, Francisco Tárrega was a composer, arranger and teacher as well as virtuoso performer. Feuillâtre captures his legacy in the colourful Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Capricho árabe, together with eight of his ingenious preludes for guitar.

TRACKLIST

1 V. Asturias. Leyenda (Transc. Feuillâtre for Guitar)
2 Recuerdos de la Alhambra
3 No. 7, El testament d'Amelia
4 No. 6, Lo fill del rei
5 No. 13, Cançó del lladre
6 No. 15, El noi de la mare
7 V. Capricho Catalan (Transc. Feuillâtre for Guitar)
8 No. 10, Danza triste. Melancólica (Transc. Llobet for Guitar)
9 I. Allegro con spirito
10 II. Adagio
11 III. Allegro gentile
12 No. 5, Andaluza. Playera (Transc. Feuillâtre for Guitar & Violin)
13 Capricho árabe
14 Prelude No. 1 in D Minor
15 Prelude No. 18 in D Major
16 Prelude No. 34 in D Minor "Endecha"
17 Prelude No. 35 in D Minor "Oremus"
18 Prelude No. 10 in D Major "Inedito"
19 Prelude No. 6 in B Minor
20 Prelude No. 5 in E Major
21 Prelude No. 15 in E Major
22 I. Granada. Serenata (Transc. Tárrega for Guitar)
23 No. 12, Torre Bermeja (Transc. Feuillâtre for Guitar)
24 VI. Epílogo (Transc. Feuillâtre for Guitar)



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