Frederic Mompou - Piano Music Volume 4 (Jordi Maso)

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Frederic Mompou - Piano Music Volume 4 (Jordi Maso)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 232 Mb
Label: Naxos - Date: 2002

Mompou was a Catalan composer of lyric songs and piano miniatures whose music is characterized by Impressionist elegance, simple and direct melody, and the haunting, deep emotions of folk music.

Mompou studied piano at the Conservatorio del Liceo in Barcelona and gave his first concert at the age of 15. Three years later, with a letter of recommendation from composer Granados, he went to Paris to study piano and harmony. While there, he wrote his first piano pieces, the Impresiones intimas (1911-1914).

He became very taken with Debussy and the modern French composers, especially the spare melodiousness of Erik Satie. Mompou characterized this Satie quality in his music as "recomençament" (starting over at the beginning), a return to a kind of fundamental, basic state of realization. In emulation of Satie, Mompou adopted his method of scoring (in many of the piano works) by eliminating bar lines and key signatures, and (like Bartók and other composers) placing accidentals only before the notes to which they immediately apply. He also picked up the idea of inserting unusual and often illogically humorous comments, directions, and surreal images in the score, which actually serve to suggest the mood of a passage more adequately than the normal emotional and articulation markings – some of Mompou's directions were "Chantez avec le fraîcheur de l'herbe humide" and "Donnez des excuses."

When World War I broke out, Mompou returned to Barcelona, where he continued composing from 1914-1921. His works at that time include the song L'hora grisa (1915) to words by Blancafort, and the piano sets Pessebres (1914-1917), Scènes d'enfants (1915-1918), Cants mágìcs (1917-1919), Fêtes lointaines (1920), and Charmes (1920-1921). Suburbis (1916-1917) contains musical portraits of people encountered during Mompou's long walks. They were richly orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal in 1936. In El carrer, el guitarrista i el cavall (The road, the guitarist and the old horse) a trumpet tune suggests the slow progress of a cart loaded with stone drawn by a weary horse "with large, sad eyes." An old man grinds a (wonderfully imitated) barrel organ. Gitane I and Gitane II draw portraits of two female gypsy friends, La Fana and La Chatuncha, through teasing dance music. La cegueta expresses gentle empathy for "the little blind girl" whose slow, uncertain walk is expressed by mirrored patterns. In L'home de l'Aristó (The ariston player) we hear a jolly pieces played again by the wandering beggar musician.

In 1921 Mompou returned to Paris where he remained 20 years, and then returned permanently to Barcelona. He was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and elected to the Royal Academy of San Jorge in Barcelona and of San Fernando in Madrid.

The creation of many piano sets extended over large time spans: the 12 Cançons i dansas (1921-1928, 1942-1962), the ten Préludes (1927-1930, 1943-1951), Variaciones sobre un tema di Chopin (1938-57), the brilliant and evocative Paisajes (1942-1960), and Música callada (1959-1967).

Several of his significant songs include the Comptines I-VI (1931, 1943), Combat del somni (1942-1948), and Llueve sobre el rio, Pastoral (1945). His works for chorus are the Cantar del alma (1951) with text from St. John of the Cross, and Improperios (1963) for chorus and orchestra.

from Allmusic
Tracks:

01. Musica callada 1st cahier 1 Angelico [0:02:06.09]
02. Musica callada 1st cahier 2 Lent [0:01:50.49]
03. Musica callada 1st cahier 3 Placide [0:01:36.72]
04. Musica callada 1st cahier 4 Aflitto e penoso [0:03:25.23]
05. Musica callada 1st cahier 5 54 [0:01:54.46]
06. Musica callada 1st cahier 6 Lento [0:02:15.62]
07. Musica callada 1st cahier 7 Lento [0:03:00.34]
08. Musica callada 1st cahier 8 Semplice [0:00:42.43]
09. Musica callada 1st cahier 9 Lento [0:03:03.29]
10. Musica callada 2nd cahier 10 Lento cantabile [0:01:38.30]
11. Musica callada 2nd cahier 11 Allegretto [0:01:11.03]
12. Musica callada 2nd cahier 12 Lento [0:02:52.42]
13. Musica callada 2nd cahier 13 Tranquillo tres calme [0:01:57.09]
14. Musica callada 2nd cahier 14 Severo - serieux [0:01:45.45]
15. Musica callada 2nd cahier 15 Lento plaintif [0:02:16.71]
16. Musica callada 2nd cahier 16 Calme [0:02:06.09]
17. Musica callada 3rd cahier 17 Lento [0:02:55.61]
18. Musica callada 3rd cahier 18 Luminoso [0:01:57.36]
19. Musica callada 3rd cahier 19 Tranquillo [0:02:31.50]
20. Musica callada 3rd cahier 20 Calme [0:03:37.70]
21. Musica callada 3rd cahier 21 Lento [0:03:01.15]
22. Musica callada 4th cahier 22 Molto lento e tranquillo [0:02:31.26]
23. Musica callada 4th cahier 23 Calme avec clarte [0:02:17.48]
24. Musica callada 4th cahier 24 Moderato [0:02:10.33]
25. Musica callada 4th cahier 25 100 [0:02:58.52]
26. Musica callada 4th cahier 26 Lento [0:03:24.18]
27. Musica callada 4th cahier 27 Lento molto [0:03:22.60]
28. Musica callada 4th cahier 28 Lento [0:04:37.25]
29. El pont (1946) [0:06:18.08]
30. Muntanya (Dansa)(1915) [0:03:46.15]


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