Composers from Central America

[lito valle]

I am looking for "Noche de luna en la ruinas", by Mariano Valverde.

Thanks in advance.

ILU.

México.

Hola Ilu
Aquí está Noche de luna... para piano

Valverde - Noche de Luna entre Ruinas -piano.pdf

Saludos (y nos vemos!)

[ilu]

Lito:

Muchas gracias, seguimos en contacto

... and I hope that the PP" members enjoy this piece and their comments will be well received.

ILU.

[alfor]

...I think this piece takes one on quite an enjoyable journey. (But medium difficulty? )

...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...

[alfor]

The Art of Transcription...
...classical indeed (the very first bars faintly reminiscent of Schubert );
motto: „...if Mendelssohn would have written transcriptions...”

Ruperto Chapí:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruperto_Chap%C3%AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlyoL1wI0c

nms (alfor-edited)

Gonzalez del Valle Zapateado, Jota (Chapi).pdf

[fleubis]

...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...

and of course LIszt is medium difficulty compared to Sorabji

[alfor]

...compared to most of Liszt's opera Fantasies...

and of course LIszt is medium difficulty compared to Sorabji

...this might indeed be true...
(but, fortunately, Godowsky gave us some preparatory exercises... )

[alfor]

„JUGAR CON FUEGA“ (The Play With The Fire) is a famous Zarzuela
by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (Libretto by Ventura de la Vega),
premiered in 1851 in Madrid.

nms (alfor-edited)

Gonzalez del Valle Improvisata Jugar con fuego.pdf

[fleubis]

The Gonzalez 'Improvisata Jugar con fuego' is based on yet another operetta that I've never heard of, and dates from 1874. `El Barberillo de Lavapies,' or `The Little Barber of Lavapiés (it is a district of Madrid)' is set in eighteenth-century Madrid, and its funny libretto deals comically with political intrigues in the court of Carlos III. The action follows a comic 'common' couple, the barber Lamparilla and the seamstress Paloma, who help a `romantic' aristocratic couple in trouble with some royalty, Don Luis and the Marquesita. I will have fun finding which themes Gonzales used.

Thank you, Alfred.

P.S.: Even Granados tried his hand at the zazuela genre by reworking his Goyescas into one for the Met.

[alfor]

To fleubis, with compliments!

Surely one of Mr. del Valle's major achievements in this genre - although on an
altogether much smaller level than Liszt.

nms (alfor-edited)

Gonzalez del Valle Rapsodia espanola op.19.pdf

[fleubis]

I find Gonzalez Rhapsody quite something. An amazing show piece. Liszt-like indeed, and some of the thematic material will be well familiar to Lisztonians. It is difficult, but very well written for the piano. Great fun playing through this terrific piece. How can music as good as this be ignored for so long?

Alfred, thank you for rescuing this composer from undeserved obscurity. If it weren't for you combing through the libraries, how would we have ever known about Gonzalez?