Victor Braojos at Imperial College
The voice of Spain with love, authority and passion
Víctor Braojos with an eclectic programme of music from his fellow countryman Enrique Granados
Romantic Scenes is an early work that owes much to Chopin or even in places early Fauré and was followed by two pieces from his masterpiece ‘Goyescas’ whose success in New York signalled the composers untimely death by a German torpedo in the English Channel.
The Escenas Romanticas is from Granados’s early period with the lilting melancholy of the Mazurka with its passionate central outburst before returning to the Mazurka again but with poignant insistence. There was the purity of the long solo recitativo and the the gentle strum of the guitar as an opening to the mellifluous radiance of the Berceuse. A passionate outpouring of sumptuous full sounds in the Lento con extasis and a folk melody of simple grace and beauty of the Allegretto. An Allegro Appassionato with a luminous outpouring of passionate romantic sounds and scintillating playing of great assurance. The Epilogo the best known of the set is a ravishing outpouring of Fauré type song of great beauty.
