Alicia de Larrocha plays Albéniz - Iberia + Navarra (1980 Live)

ISAAC ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909)
Iberia (Complete) + Navarra
• Book I
- Evocación 0:07
- El Puerto 5:42
- Fête-dieu à Seville 9:55
• Book II
- Rondeña 19:11
- Almería 26:30
- Triana 36:13
• Book III
- El Albaicín 41:37
- El Polo 48:52
- Lavapiés 55:57
• Book IV
- Málaga 1:02:57
- Jerez 1:07:50
- Eritaña 1:17:13
• Encore: Navarra 1:22:53
ALICIA DE LARROCHA, piano
Live from Royal Festival Hall, London, England; 02-March-1980.
Information: www.aliciadela...
Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
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[@eluemunoblyden1444]

Her playing makes me feel as though I am alive forever. It takes away time.

[@manuelprietohernandez4820]

Insuperable de Larrocha. Perfecta, maravillosa, eterna.

[@carlosfangano8068]

Muchas gracias por compartir, hermosa interpretación de temas entrañables. Buenos Aires, 27.11.2023.

[@ANCLEF]

Full admiration how she managed not to only perform the whole Iberia without neglecting her fresh articulation, persisting velocity and crisp rhythm, but even raised the intensity and aliveness the more she was reaching the end … thank you for sharing this legendary live recording of Alicia de Larrocha ❤️

[@3121pati]

This is celestial music played with such grace and nuance of tone and phrasing, that it elevates your soul to the highest realm of ART.

[@skisunfb]

Alicia was and is a Spanish national treasure. This anthological live recording of Iberia is a testament to her supreme artistry. Thank you for sharing!

[@Rudy-zk2cq]

Bravo Bravo!! Leaves me breathless! And such tiny little hands! What an inspiration!🤗🎹💔🎶🎵🎶🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@henrigaziel2002]

This is one of the greatest cultural achievements. Music representing all the arts at the very highest level. The perfect marriage between composer and performer; and both are possessed by sheer genius. You hear the history, literature, folklore, dance, architecture and song of a country through the piano. And in Alicia de Larrocha, you have the most authentic and faithful servant of all the arts. Nobody, without exception, has come close to presenting this music so perfectly pure.

[@scottpardee6303]

I was just about to add my own comment when I saw this. He said exactly what I had in mind!

[@maryari3132]

Completamente d' accordo e grata per queste parole PERFETTE! ALICIA DE LARROCHA ERA VERAMENTE GRANDIOSA!!! 👏👏👏❤️🔝

[@margaritapizarro5835]

Me canta al Alma.... la mía propia y ...al amado maestro, ALBÉNIZ.

[@sergiovicente7618]

De Larrocha era uma FERA no piano. Poucas nascerão como ela. Jóia rara!!! Amo escutá-la!!!

[@luizfernandg]

This is glorious, beautifull piano playing, just about desapeared in our days...I'm so glad to have heard her so many times in those years!

[@pianoman9685]

We miss you and love you dear Alicia.

[@jiangyilin_official]

La reina ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@jesuisravi]

Alicia, the little giant of the piano.

[@gerardbegni2806]

Iberia is one of the mastrpieces of the worldwide literature for piano. Alicia de Llarocha renders it in a marvelous way.

[@carlosforcada900]

Llevo varios días escuchando esta grabación, es un verdadero tesoro de la música española para piano. Una impresionante versión en manos de una de sus mejores intérpretes de siempre, sin parangón entre los muchos grandes pianistas que ahora interpretan esta obra

[@salt_cots]

I am reminded of a comment made (possibly about the tiny pianist Alicia de Larrocha) by Chilean master Claudio Arrau (himself not large either): "A big, powerful physique makes some pianists, the power of the spirit drives others on." And there is no finer example of this spirit than in Navarra at 1:24:57. A melody that you think will shatter the top end of the keyboard, enormous thwacks in the bass, the sudden pianissimo as it shifts magically into (I think) G flat major 1:26:06

[@themusicalgerbil192]

She played the whole thing live and added Navarra as an encore? That woman was insane.

[@IvanGreindl]

At least, she was *exceptional*... ;-)

[@beatrizsusanadubson8849]

miss you Alicia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Beyond any words I can conjure up...except maybe: utter perfection......

[@avolodos6122]

Mi compañero y yo estamos escuchando esto. Siento a Solierei cuando miraba a través de los wirks de Mozart y no podía creer que fueran los primeros borradores sin correcciones. Tal genio para reproducir toda esta música difícil con tanta facilidad. Estoy realmente sin palabras. Unas palabras ... gracias a Dios por este juego para esta mujer y gracias a Dios todo fue registrado para la prosperidad.

[@rgh7399]

What a touch and feeling. I could listen to her all day. I did see her concert the last year she toured the USA. Thanks for this recording..

[@enaralva]

What a deliciuos way to play the piano, only Alicia. And of course the beautiful music by Albéniz.

[@Janaceks_Dad]

The stamina it must have taken to perform (and memorize) some of the most torturous music ever composed...and to give a performance on this level!! She was a class act and truly one of legends of the instrument...even today, with so many pianists out there who can play well technically, there is still no one quite like her...

[@PolkRidgeAesthete]

Surely, one of the very greatest pianists ever.

[@xabiercasanabia3717]

Equuttptqpoypppd

[@xavierbordes1373]

On imagine qu'en composant Albeniz lui-même jouait ainsi, nuances, fougue, sensibilité, contraste, nostalgie aiguë et rêveuse. Un résumé de sa vie dans ces pages inoubliables...

[@avolodos6122]

GENIUS

[@carlocroccolo771]

Rarely I have heard Albeniz interpret with so much accuracy, precision, and feeling ..... BRAVISSIMA ALICIA and Thanks for the Download ..... !!!!!

[@PeterLunowPL]

there will NEVER EVER be anybody to equal this achievement ! nine thumbs down????????????????????

[@luizfernandg]

Just to say that I find it unbelievable some of the coments we read on this post, trying to compare Alicia's version of this work with those of many other pianists from the past and present! They may be good and even do "a good job", but she is in another class of players: the great ones!

[@harryandruschak2843]

BRAVA! Still my desert island pianist.

[@huismanq]

Glorious as always! Thank you so much!

[@danielblancovillaro6887]

Maravilloso

[@jc38916]

this version is so magical and beautiful. thank you Alicia :)

[@avolodos6122]

This playing is beyond earth

[@danielceccaldi9676]

Parmi les plus grandes interprétations toutes musiques confondues .

[@pghagen]

Another wonderfull rendition of Iberia by AdL. And great critics in the Guardian too.

[@julioperezleiva2600]

Qué se puede elogiar después de oir esta bellísima versión de IBERIA. Sin duda alguna,fue la intérprete por exzcelencia de Albéniz.

[@henrigaziel2002]

I’d love to hear the eight morons who gave this the thumbs down play the piano. People can be subjective in taste, certainly, but in this case it’s surely a total lack of understanding of music, art, life, society, history and culture. Albéniz had to be dissuaded from throwing the manuscript of Iberia on the fire, because he feared what he had written was unplayable. The fact that Larrocha is peerless, is simply because no other pianist has ever come close to so completely understanding the complexities of the text. Her genius is that she makes it sound simple, utterly authentic and totally accessible. You don’t hear the mechanics, as with most other interpreters of Iberia, just the highest potential of the masterpieces, as only dreamed of by Albéniz.

[@avolodos6122]

Libro tres Lavapies me dejó alucinado. Todavía estoy asombrado

[@slowpainful]

What I always find incredible is her ability to make those melodies soar, even when they're a single gold thread interwoven with 50 million other notes cascading in all directions; and also her rhythmic vitality, which is sort of rubato, but maybe just an aliveness to the moment. I've never heard her play these the same way twice. I've just read some other "critiques" of her playing which call her "metronomic", "mechanical", and my favorite, "lacking in Spanish passion." (??? If these people heard Mozart play, they'd say, "where's the Mozartian clarity?"). I don't know what to think of these critics, but maybe their iPhones were on "do not disturb" mode, because I hear nothing but the very opposite. Oh well. She without doubt had nerves of steel.

[@projectifier]

Not to mention she played it all in one performance so exceptionally. Wikipedia say's "The twelve pieces were first performed by the French pianist Blanche Selva, but each book was premiered in a different place and on a different date. Three of the performances were in Paris, the other being in a small town in the south of France. Book I: May 9, 1906, Salle Pleyel, Paris Book II: September 11, 1907, Saint-Jean-de-Luz Book III: January 2, 1908, Palace of Princess de Polignac, Paris Book IV: February 9, 1909, Société Nationale de Musique, Paris."

[@bernardparret3191]

I do thank you for your analysis, so clever, so relevant. At long last a bright piece of comment !

[@bernardparret3191]

I wish I could regularly talk with you about music !

[@luizfernandg]

@@projectifier Not to forget that Blanche Selva was a trully fantastic pianist, with a tremendous technique!

[@matiasalucemazamorano2323]

Its just baffling how people say that she lacks the Spanish quality, and some of them go to praise Bream's/William's playing on the guitar.

[@classicalsingermp3]

incomparable Alicia! Tuve la insigna suerte de estudiar con uno de sus alumnos, el Compositor Antonio Ruiz Pipo

[@waelsamhouri8269]

❤️

[@angelandresmarquez]

¡Una absoluta heroicidad!

[@carlosforcada900]

Escuchar esta Eritaña y pensar que es un recital en directo da absoluto pavor. Los que estuvieron allí fueron muy afortunados

[@barbaraaselafloresiturbe1661]

Hermoso

[@pianoman9685]

Genius

[@fe12rrps]

43:00 the passionate melody parallel in two octaves apart complimented by ethereal harmonies is the Albeniz prayer...

[@fe12rrps]

Thank you for posting this.

[@avolodos6122]

las palabras no pueden describir la belleza potente en este juego

[@MrGer2295]

Great ! Thank you for posting :)

[@willemboone7912]

She is wonderful and unique! Just heard an awful rendition of Iberia by Jorge Luis Prats, who was heavy handed, even vulgar! This is how it should sound!

[@enriquesanchez2001]

He just HAS heavy hands...his control is so lacking...

[@benjaminortinpanizo5151]

1:22:55 Navarra

[@luc3753]

She must have been exhausted by the end of Iberia. Yet, she played Navarra as an encore. Can you believe that?

[@richardgoldstein5600]

This is why pianos are born.

[@fatimacanche9081]

La llamaban la rReina de Albeniz y Granados

[@xavierbordes8673]

Tout ce qu'il y a de mieux pour servir Albeniz !

[@luistester727]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤫🙃🌹❤️

[@user-vv4se4ls2u]

9:55

[@nonenone8118]

There is no substitute for a pure transmitter. Rafael Orozco's (1946-1996) performance.of the Iberia suite comes across as weak and muddy-sounding. We are not merely physical beings--we have a spiritual dimension.

[@luizfernandg]

I just heard Eritana by Orozco, and it does not sound very good at all! Slow and heavy! Not up to compare to Alicia's version, that's all we can say!

[@xavierbordes1373]

On ne sait pas bien quelle version de Navarra, Séverac ou l'autre est jouée ici, on dirait Bolcom, très intéressante... mais il faudrait voir les deux partitions pour comparer... Admirablement, pour ne pas dire génialement, joué de toutes façons...

[@lisilisin]

She always played the Severac's version

[@yy4121]

36:14 37:40

[@inraid]

soft, smooth and boring -- she misses all the colors and edges and shifting lights one hears in performances by Esteban Sanchez, Rafael Orozco and Leopoldo Querol.

[@lisilisin]

I respect all opinions, but yours is a clear personal rejection of Alicia de Larrocha. "Soft, smooth and boring" ??? Come on! You may like other performances better (the ones you name are also fantastic) but to say that it is boring and lacks color ... She performed this work many times, therefore, each performance is different and there is no a single version. This audio corresponds to a live recital (without cut and paste), a fact that you should take into account. Esteban Sanchez, Rafael Orozco and Leopoldo Querol were great pianists and they all have their own way of understanding this work, neither better nor worse, simply different.

[@arturonicolayevsky9675]

You are an idiot to think like this about probably the best version of Iberia live performance ever. It is full of rhythmic vitality colors textures etc. My only other favorite recording is Arrau’s of the first 6 pieces very different but also incredible

[@luizfernandg]

You must be joking!!! That's all I can think of...

[@luizfernandg]

@@lisilisin My friedn, I'm sorry to say that they understand it much worse... She is very much above all these pianists mentioned as great!

[@luizfernandg]

Let me tell you just one thing: if you asked these pianists about Alicia's playing, they would most probably say that she is a much greater pianist as they ever expected themselves to be!

[@pianoman9685]

GENIUS

[@arconoc]

I was there at RFH and also at the QEH some years earlier - still vivid in my mind and heart - nobody does it better!! xx

[@avolodos6122]

GENIUS