Artist: Marina Staneva
Title: Mompou: Piano Works
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks) + booklet
Total Time: 01:25:40
Total Size:  1.21 GB

Tracklist:

1. Mompou: Paisajes: I. La Fuente y la campana (4:03)
2. Mompou: Paisajes: II. El lago (4:36)
3. Mompou: Paisajes: III. Carros de Galicia (4:40)
4. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: I. Thème (0:50)
5. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: II. Variation I. Tranquillo (0:56)
6. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: III. Variation II. Gracioso (0:51)
7. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: IV. Variation III. Lento [for the left hand] (1:16)
8. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: V. Variation IV. Espressivo (1:49)
9. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VI. Variation V. Temnpo di Mazurka (1:15)
10. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VII. Variation VI. Recitativo (1:52)
11. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VIII. Variation VII. Allegro leggiero (0:55)
12. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: IX. Variation VIII. Andante dolce e espressivo (2:29)
13. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: X. Variation IX. Valse (2:06)
14. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XI. Variation X. Évocation. Cantabile molto espressivo (2:45)
15. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XII. Variation XI. Lento dolce e legato (2:39)
16. Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XIII. Variation XII. Galope y Epílogo (3:47)
17. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: I. Quasi moderato (3:05)
18. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: II. Lento (3:05)
19. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: III. À Frank Marshall. Modéré (3:53)
20. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: IV. À madame la Princesse Bassiano. Moderat (4:03)
21. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: V. Lento liturgico (4:52)
22. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VI. À Arthur Rubinstein. Cantabile espressivo (3:58)
23. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VII. Lento (3:03)
24. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VIII. Moderato cantabile con sentimento (3:51)
25. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: IX. À Gonzalo Soriano. Cantabile espressivo (4:00)
26. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: X. Sobre dos Cantigas del Rey Alfonso X (Siglo XII) À S.A.R. la Infanta Da. Maria Cristina de Borbón Battenberg. Larghetto molto cantabile (3:48)
27. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: XI. À Rafael Puyana. Lent et majestueux (4:22)
28. Mompou: Cançons i Danses: XII. À la mémoire de Léon Fargue. Molto cantabile (3:31)

Following her acclaimed début recital, Marina Staneva returns with a programme of works by the Spanish-Catalan composer Federico Mompou. The programme opens with Paisajes (Landscapes), written in 1942, 1947, and 1960. The first two pieces are dedicated to the Catalan pianist Carmen Bravo, whom Mompou met after his return from Paris to Barcelona in 1942, and subsequently married. Mompou’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin were started in 1938, but completed in 1957 upon a commission from the Royal Ballet in London for a successor to The House of Birds (a 1955 ballet which used piano pieces by Mompou orchestrated by John Lanchbery). The Chopin ballet was never produced, but the piano variations remain. The twelve Cançons i danses (Songs and Dances) were composed between 1921 and 1962, and the form for each is broadly similar: a slow ‘cançó’ (song) followed by a more animated ‘dansa’ (dance), but the pattern sometimes varies, and these pieces are anything but formulaic. Mompou intended to provide ‘a contrast between lyricism and rhythm, to avoid one collection of songs and another of dances’.