Host Scott Yoo, guitarist Manuel Barrueco and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán discuss how Albéniz’s work was influenced by Spain. Then, the musicians play Albéniz’s “Asturias.” Ballet Flameco de ...

Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with host Scott Yoo along with musicians from Albéniz’s birthplace in the Pyrenees mountains as well as Sevilla, Mallorca and more.

Coming to Albéniz’s A minor Piano Concerto with an innocent ear, you would be hard pressed to identify it as being by the same composer as Suite Iberia, Suite española and Cantos de España. There is ...

In a game of “guess the composer” here is a work that would have them stumped. Albéniz’s Piano Concerto No.1, the so-called “Concierto fantástico” is a songful piece, so much like Schumann’s concerto ...

Using only a solo piano, Isaac Albeniz was able to create a large palette of sounds that invoked his feelings for the place he was describing, Iberia. But other musicians were unable to resist ...

Albéniz: Piano music - in its original form and a variety of other guises. Donald Macleod presents highlights from five Composer of the Week episodes exploring the finest his... Show more Albéniz: ...

Spanish composers Pablo de Sarasate and Isaac Albeniz influenced the musical world with their colorful musical pictures of Spain. They also died within a year of each other in the early 1900s.

"Albeniz is, for me, maybe one of four composers who completely changed the history of piano music.""Albeniz is, for me, maybe one of four composers who completely changed the history of piano music." ...

It is his piano music, with its essentially Spanish flavour, that made Albéniz famous. Albéniz’s early life is one of the most extraordinary of any musician. In fact his whole life was something of an ...