Isaac Albeniz was bitten by the travel bug early on. He ran away from home for the first time when he was only 6, and later traveled throughout Europe, South America and the Caribbean. Still, he loved ...

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 ...

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 ...

Úrsula López, artistic director of Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia, exlplains why Albéniz is important to the history of flamenco. Then, the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia performs a piece choreographed ...

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 ...