Piano Concertos by Albeniz and Mignone

For the recording of the Mignone Concerto Clélia has used the new edition of the Academia Brasileira de Musica. This is a first recording of the newly revised and corrected score authorised by Mignone’s widow, pianist Maria Josephina Mignone, who had given performances of the work in years gone by. Also on this disc is the dazzling Concierto Fantástico by Isaac Albéniz – the great Spanish composer, perhaps best known for his ever-popular music for guitar, but in this work showing his equal mastery of orchestral colour and the full range of the modern concert grand piano. Albéniz dedicated the Concierto Fantástico to his friend and pupil José Tragó, who in turn taught the piano to Falla and Turina. Clélia Iruzun is undoubtedly amongst the finest pianists in South American and Iberian repertoire currently performing in Europe. Several composers, including Arnaldo Rebello and Mignone himself who knew her as a child, have dedicated works to her. Included on the CD is a delightful selection of Mignone’s and Albeniz’s works for solo piano.