Blancafort: Complete Songs Vol. 2

Alàs i Jové, Anna, Villalba, Miquel

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Manuel Blancafort’s music has a concise tonal directness that draws on his fondness for French composers. His Cançons are not simply evocative but embody an increasing use of the Noucentist aesthetic: the Catalan cultural movement of the early 20th century that was a reaction against Modernisme. Blancafort rejected the Romanticism and Wagnerian pathos of the modernist Lied in favour of Classicism and beauty – sentiments he shared with his Catalan contemporaries Toldrà, Gerhard and Mompou. Intimate, sensitive and playful, his Catalan songs connect both to his country’s past and also to a wider European musical culture.

Works:

•Blancafort: ¡Ojalá!
• Blancafort: Camí barrat
• Blancafort: Cançons de muntanya (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
• Blancafort: Cançons per a infants
• Blancafort: Cançons tradicionals catalanes (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
• Blancafort: El torrent
• Blancafort: L’aire del Montseny
• Blancafort: Motius de cançó (Version for Voice, Strings & Piano)
• Blancafort: Preguntes melangioses
• Blancafort: Remembrances (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Miquel Villalba)
• Blancafort: Romanç del goig de tenir germana
• Blancafort: Serenata a l’infant
• Blancafort: Sonet penitencial

CD x 1

Naxos

7/16/25

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