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Grace and flavour in this fine Goyescas

Granados

Goyescas, Op. 11

Javier Perianes (piano)

Harmonia Mundi HMM902626 64:56 mins

With , Granados hoped to help create a new form of Spanish art music, and the work did just and were young people from working-class districts of late-18th-century Madrid, ‘whose principal attributes were their elegant garb, courteous manners, provocative charm, and romantic ardour’. When these modes and manners also became adopted by the upper classes, became a marker for national identity.

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