In a game of “guess the composer” here is a work that would have them stumped. Albéniz’s Piano Concerto No.1, the so-called “Concierto fantástico” is a songful piece, so much like Schumann’s concerto ...

Host Scott Yoo, guitarist Manuel Barrueco and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán discuss how Albéniz’s work was influenced by Spain. Then, the musicians play Albéniz’s “Asturias.” Ballet Flameco de ...

Manuel Barrueco and Juan Pérez Floristán discuss how Albéniz was influenced by Spain. Host Scott Yoo, guitarist Manuel Barrueco and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán discuss how Albéniz's work was ...

Perhaps the story of Isaac Albéniz is not the most colourful, unlikely or fascinating of any composer’s life. But it can’t be far off, especially as accounts of it have often been liberally peppered ...

Once again, following Merlin, Plácido Domingo fronts the pioneering efforts of conductor José De Eusebio in an Albéniz revival. These operas were vanity deals with a patron, the English amateur poet ...

Daniel Barenboim isn’t Spanish. But Spanish music pulses in his musical bloodstream and he sounds comfortable with the quintessentially Spanish idiom of these Andalusian vignettes. Not only does he ...

Using only a solo piano, Isaac Albeniz was able to create a large palette of sounds that invoked his feelings for the place he was describing, Iberia. But other musicians were unable to resist ...

Although he's responsible for some of the best known Spanish guitar pieces in the repertoire, Isaac Albéniz didn't actually write any of them originally for that instrument. They are in fact all ...

Isaac Albeniz earned the title "Father of Spanish Music" because of his nationalism. Pepe Romero plays his own transcription for the guitar of the fourth dance from Albeniz's Spanish Suite, named ...

Albéniz was a child prodigy extraordinary even by the standards of Mozart and Mendelssohn: he first performed in public at the age of four, and passed the entrance exam to enter the Paris ...