Granados - Goyesca No. 4 'Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor' (Prats) Audio + Sheet music

[@kylelandry]

I really love this piece

[@msck6114]

I really love when the main theme is sung by the tenor at 3:00, with the right hand adding some glittery color. Liszt does this in his sonnets of Petrarch, it is a very special moment. The tenor range on the piano is wonderful for romantic melodies.

[@Envy_May]

Minor ninth chords are powerful.

[@cherwynambuter7873]

@@msck6114 He does this, although not simultaneously but in turn (L.H. baritone melody followed by "bird twittering" in both hands as a response to the baritone melody) in "St. Francis Preaching to the Birds". It's thoroughly charming! You should look it up and give it a listen!

[@nicosuarez6962]

1:20 ❤️❤️

[@robertrodes1546]

To those who say this recording is rushed, Granados's own recording of this is a little faster, and he takes as many liberties with the score if not more. Granados's recording remains my favorite, too.

[@EmdrGreg]

He really makes it his own. Some of his readings may seem to some to be a little quirky or eccentric, but the over-all picture is of complete mastery and a unique voice. Spectacular performance of a wonderful piece.

[@elshisu]

It is said that Consuelo Velazquez, the mexican composer, got inspiration from this Maja y el Ruiseñor, when she composed in 1932 the most famous song Besame Mucho. I think that is very likely true.

[@dafonseca1971]

She declared it indeed.... She was, since a child, a classical trained pianist... And an outstanding pop composer also...

[@myriamandrade5690]

"...Quiero tenerte muy cerca Mirarme en tus ojos, verte junto a mí Piensa que tal vez mañana Yo ya estaré lejos, muy lejos de ti Bésame, bésame mucho Como si fuera esta noche la última vez"... Yes "...I want you very close Look in your eyes, see you next to me Think that maybe tomorrow I will already be far, far away from you Kiss Me Kiss Me a Lot As if tonight were the last time. "

[@sagemaster3408]

I think the Beatles sang Bésame Mucho :) also

[@olgaorleanskaia1162]

¡Excelente interpretación! De las mejores junto con las de la sinpar Alicia de Larrocha y Joaquín Achúcarro.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Simplemente maravilloso.!!

[@sholemgimpel6050]

Great pianist and tone poet!

[@beryelle]

why do classical pianists have to be so mean to each other? Accept differences. Interpretations are personal. Why be so snarky about it.

[@dafonseca1971]

It´s pure humanity.... We all are different, and have a different sound, feeling and soul....But this version is simply outstanding...

[@christinemartin63]

Only a poet-composer can write something like this. Nobody else.

[@josealfreda]

besame mucho está inspirada en esta obra

[@aminaasafina]

the score quality WOW, outstanding

[@edfangpiano]

very nice playing. thanks for uploading

[@AvitalShtap]

This song inspired Spanish song Besame Mucho

[@legalolalde5605]

Mexican

[@lalamaralina2457]

beautiful!

[@louisc.gasper7588]

If you haven't heard it, you really ought to look here on KZbin for Ben Grosvenor's rendition of this lovely piece by Granados.

[@GhiCoko]

très belle interprétation !

[@llcamus249]

so lovely.

[@davidbrookspiano]

LOL at all the comment section "experts" here who get Big Mad when a pianist rolls a chord or bends a tempo -- do you even music? Most of the choices this pianist makes in this piece actually *are* backed up by the score markings at those moments (rall. molto, subito rit. al tempo, molto espress. etc. etc.) and the rest of the idiosyncrasies of the interpretation are a result of...oh I don't know...actually *being in the moment* and creating something spontaneous and beautiful? Or would you like to hear a highly narrative and free Spanish piece scrubbed into a fossilized "Urtext Interpretation?" I am personally all for obeying the score, but damn it never ceases to amaze me how self-professed "music lovers" find so much to dislike about music.

[@danielhughes441]

There’s a stretch. I’ve played this piece for years and know it intimately. Most of the choices this pianist makes are not in the score and go beyond “interpretation.” The pianist is taking liberties he shouldn’t. Period.

[@mgbala]

Fantastic🎉

[@DeutschlandGuy]

I have read that this piece was the inspiration for Consuelo Velázquez when she wrote Bésame Mucho. Indeed, some of the phrases in this piece did seem to end up directly in Bésame Mucho. I must learn to be more "inspired" by other peoples' work in my own writing. 😉

[@briancornish2076]

The maja needs to put something on. She has been chatting to the nightingale too long

[@Вай-м2д]

What is the translation?

[@paullisanti8673]

Bellissima

[@220392123]

perfect

[@lucasbernard1665]

super beau.

[@toniniculae]

besame mucho!

[@Patricia-wf2via]

Hace muchos años que tengo el disco tocado por Alicia de la Rocha. Lo ponía para hacer el amor con mi novio.

[@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer]

besame mucho

[@terocan9987]

besame muuuchoooo

[@markymarco2570]

eah, I've just come from Wikipedia.

[@ashleighs8483]

@@markymarco2570 lol same thats why i'm here!

[@djmotise]

Why did he wait an eternity on the first note?

[@inmor10001]

Great interpretation, although prefer the van cliburn interpretation.

[@kamlapiano]

Oh dear - Massacres are always an unpleasant business.

[@Joeyboiification]

Prats has a tendency to rush these, this one especially should be more relaxed. Take 8 minutes instead of 6. =/

[@Joeyboiification]

Actually I've decided I really don't like this interpretation at all....

[@deodatdechampignac]

Take daily low-dose aspirin and correct this post

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

And nobody cares

[@florajy282]

이렇게 치는거였구나....

[@nefelibatoofficial]

Se puede aceptar un Ad Libitum a lo largo de la obra. Pero esta interpretación no está siendo nada exigente con el tempo

[@danielhughes441]

This pianist makes a lot of choices not in the score (adding arpeggios, changing the directions of the arpeggios, totally changing rhythms, etc.). Not impressed by this rendition. De Larrocha is still vastly superior.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

WHATever.........

[@hughtonks]

A shame he couldn't be bothered to stick to the music or its directions - there are all sorts of extra notes added. And just because you can play it too fast doesn't mean you should.

[@NOSEhow2LIV]

That proves it,this man can't read music!I've often thunk him totally negligent of the composer but this is awful;he obviously can't be bothered with"slow"music so just busks as he fancies.Granados' gorgeous colors are reduced to beginners harmony manual material,the abused basses add insult to injury. 4.01&4.12 show his incomprehension of harmonic suspension;the final"vivace"sections are as un-nightingale as possible, the final chords are wrong,all is too loud.Stick to fast loud stuff,please!

[@teddythemlgcorgi7309]

Let’s see your recording then! Music doesn’t have to be exactly what the score says. Is this what music is really about? Just following exactly what the score says without changing it up a little bit?

[@bartwatts1921]

Such terrible playing. He not only neglects the score all together, but the space so needed in Spanish music is all but forgotten. This piece is a Spanish masterpiece and of the finest example of Spanish romanticism and this piano player ( he's not a pianist) drains this piece of romantic passion and leaves it a dried, withered shell. What a shame.

[@jmckee9707]

Hey Bart do you play? where can we listen to your recording? The pianist is Jorge Luis Prats, one of the worlds leading classical pianist from Cuba. I realize we are all entitled to our opinions but I really don't know why people feel the urge to respond on You Tube like their opinions matter to anyone, me included. This pianist has a wonderful technique and plays beautifully, PERIOD!!!

[@Coolcat607]

I thought Granados played it faster... and he wrote it.

[@bartwatts1921]

Jeff M I do play. I have a PhD in musicology and performance. I’ve played the Rachmaninoff 3 with the Sydney symphony orchestra. I’ve given hundreds of recitals and I’ve played this piece many times. My comment stands.

[@floop_the_pigs2840]

@@bartwatts1921 poopoo cringe

[@neilkilleen3911]

This is a bit of a strange remark Bart. This piece is very elastic, and Prats certainly gives it that flexibility (for example, look carefully and he observes most but not all the rits. and a tempos). For my own sensibility, I don't agree with everything he does (I really dislike those downward arpeggios and the doubled bass note just before the final flourish does not make musical sense too me). However, the piece lives and breathes under his hands with his conceptualisation. I've spent the last couple of months working on this piece, and the primary thing I have learned is that there are a very large number of ways to interpret it within it's basic framework. Amusingly, I don't much like Granados' own performance !! I can't find any mention of you on the internet as a musicologist or playing with the SSO. Can you supply a link to that concert or to some of your hundreds of recitals ?