Word: albeniz
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...Barber: Symphony #2; Bach: Sonata #3 in G for Cello and Piano; Albeniz: Iberia; Boccherini: Quartet in Eb Major; Beethoven: Symphony...
KING HENRY VIII not only had six wives but he was also an enthusiastic composer. One of his love songs appropriately titled Helas, Madame, will be performed in New York this week by a group known as Pro Musica Antiqua. The royal composer is only one of hundreds from Albeniz to Zandonai whose works are heard in New York every season in dozens of little halls and auditoriums far from Carnegie Hall and the Met. There out-of-the-way music groups, both amateur and professional, are giving Manhattan the kind of musical excitement that the booming off-Broadway theater...
Andres Segovia: Music of Albeniz and Granados (Decca, 6 sides). Segovia's fastidious reading of two Spanish composers-on a guitar as sensitive as a harp -makes this the collector's album of the month. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...their musical possibilities, Spaniards, began to apply themselves with greater success to serious composition. By combining characteristics of their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...
...program will include "Diferencias sobre el Canto del Caballero," written by Antonio de Cabezon in the 16th century; three sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler; three selections from the suite "Iberia," by Isaac Albeniz; and the modern "Distant Saraband" by Joaquin Rodriguo...