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Enrique Granados

Los Requiebros, from Goyescas  Play

Jie Chen Piano

Recorded on 07/24/2007, uploaded on 01/08/2009

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Los Requiebros from Goyecas            Enrique Granados

Los Requiebros is the first piece from the set Goyescas, subtitled "Los majos enamorados" (The majos, or gallants, in love). The title Goyescas means "in the manner of Goya" or "after Goya." Each of the six pieces in the set is a musical evocation of a painting or etching by Francisco Goya, the 18th-century Spanish painter. Granados was completely captivated by the painter and his works, especially by his paintings of the "majas"-those beautiful, mysterious aristocratic Spanish women with their mantillas and fans. In these pieces Granados brilliantly blended the stylistic and technical elements inherited from Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt with Spanish melodies, rhythms, and colors to achieve a highly individual, poetic musical expression.      Jie Chen