ALBÉNIZ Recuerdos de viaje. Espagne (Souvenirs). Azulejos. La vega. Navarra * Guillermo González (pn) * NAXOS 8.570553 (72:35)

Guillermo González, born in Tenerife, is a distinguished pianist who has been recording Spanish repertoire for Naxos; I greatly enjoyed his recent two-CD set of Ernesto Halffter's piano music. Now, almost a decade after recording Iberia, he has produced a second volume of the music of Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909).

This is an interestingly programmed recital, consisting of an early work (the seven-movement suite Recuerdos de viaje of 1886/7) and several works written after Albéniz had settled in Paris.

Of the latter, La Vega is the most intriguing. Intended as the ...

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