Product Review

Volume 6 of this complete edition focuses in the main on Albenizs richly varied, early salon style. It includes the dazzling Chopin influenced Vals Champagne, the Estudio de concierto which rivals Liszt for virtuosity, and the famous Tango from Espana: Seis hojas de Album, a set which conjures up Spain in its rhythms, harmonies and sense of drama. Written a year before the composers death, Yvonne en visite! includes a humorous scene during a pupils reluctant performance, while the Marcha militar is Albenizs earliest work, composed at the age of eight.