Frederic Mompou - Piano Music Volume 6 (Jordi Maso)

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Frederic Mompou - Piano Music Volume 6 (Jordi Maso)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 181 Mb
Label: Naxos - Date: 2011

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
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01. El plany del captaire [0:04:49.34]
02. Les fabriques prop de la platja [0:01:12.71]
03. Record de platja [0:02:01.08]
04. Barri de platja [0:00:59.26]
05. Camins de sorra [0:02:26.10]
06. 5 impressions - I. — [0:01:28.28]
07. 5 impressions - II. — [0:02:36.34]
08. 5 impressions - III. Dansa de la noia que salta a la corda vora el riu [0:02:33.39]
09. 5 impressions - IV. — [0:02:14.29]
10. 5 impressions - V. Petit cementiri a la tarda [0:02:54.14]
11. L'ermita de la Garriga [0:02:04.62]
12. Pastoral en la boira [0:02:27.05]
13. Pastoral salvatge [0:03:34.62]
14. Cami de muntanya [0:01:29.01]
15. Les amigues retornen del camp [0:02:33.60]
16. El cami del jardi [0:00:51.58]
17. Montseny [0:01:57.40]
18. L'eco [0:01:38.72]
19. Impressions de Muntanya - I. Dansa de poble [0:01:02.38]
20. Impressions de Muntanya - II. El repos dins el temple [0:01:37.04]
21. Impressions de Muntanya - III. Pastoral [0:00:48.29]
22. Pensament [0:02:00.66]
23. 2 petits preludis - No. 1. Oracio d'ermita [0:01:42.54]
24. 2 petits preludis - No. 2. Il.lusio [0:01:13.07]
25. Preludi [0:01:13.38]
26. 2 arabesques - Arabesque No. 1 [0:01:34.37]
27. 2 arabesques - Arabesque No. 2 [0:01:45.13]
28. Estanys de paper de plata [0:02:42.23]
29. Dansa dels tres reis que han caigut del camell [0:03:15.24]
30. Canco i dansa del pessebre [0:02:58.00]
31. Les hores [0:03:12.37]
32. Ball pla [0:01:21.48]


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