Albéniz: The Road to Iberia, by Ray Picot
Ray Picot, will highlight the key components of the work's antecedents, as well as revealing some lesser-known hidden gems in the composer's catalogue. Discover the seminal interpretations whilst learning about the music in context.
Isaac Albéniz was one of a triumvirate of Spanish composers, along with Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla, to achieve international acclaim during the early years of the 20th century, as part of a movement that led to a new renaissance in Spanish music. His untimely death deprived Spanish music of one of its greatest composers shortly after the completion of his masterpiece, Iberia: four books of ‘impressions’ for piano, written between 1905 and 1908.
wrote at this time which culminated in Iberia
