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Federico Mompou: Música callada
CDA68362 (Hyperion Records, CD)
DDD
FIRST RELEASE (3 February 2023)
Playing time: 68'40"
Tracks: 28
Booklet pages: 19
℗ 2023 Hyperion Records Ltd
© 2023 Hyperion Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Country of manufacture: Austria
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Federico Mompou: Música callada published on 14 April 2023
Stephen Hough, piano
Federico Mompou (1893-1987):
Música callada (Silent Music)
Primer Cuaderno (1959)
1 Angelico
2 Lent
3 Placide
4 Afflitto e penoso
5 [crotchet=54]
6 Lento
7 Lento
8 Semplice
9 Lento
Segundo Cuaderno (1962)
10 Lento: Cantabile
11 Allegretto
12 Lento
13 Tranquillo: Très calme
14 Severo: Sérieux
15 Lento: Plaintif
16 Calme
Tercer Cuaderno (1962)
17 Lento
18 Luminoso
19 Tranquillo
20 Calme
21 Lento
Cuarto Cuaderno (1967)
22 Molto lento e tranquillo
23 Calme, avec clarté
24 Moderato
25 [crotchet=100]
26 Lento
27 Lento molto
28 Lento
Música callada comprises twenty-eight exquisite miniatures, brief in duration yet rich in allusion: music which makes its mark with subtlety and understatement.
Recorded 22-24 October 2020 in St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London, UK.