GRANADOS, Enrique
Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados for piano
4. Complaints, or The Maiden and the Nightingale
Luis Fernando Pérez, guest professor
Tomás Alegre, student
Luis Fernando Pérez comments to the student that he is nervous and active, which is good on many occasions, but it is necessary to know how to control and ration it so as not to exaggerate at certain moments. Regarding the music, it is necessary to breathe the phrases. All the moments that increase in Granados are not more accelerando, with expansion but controlling. The professor also suggests taking advantage of the cadential moments until reaching the tonic with more depth (G flat). Granados yielded: play with a woman’s jealousy, not a widow’s sadness.
Other recommendations from the professor are that when we want to achieve more passion, we lengthen the phrase – expansion in emotion – and the typical 7ths of Goyescas help the sensation of expansion. In addition, the 8ths have to sound more, they give another sonority. You have to enjoy it more, make it a bit of salon music: it is more fanciful, dreamy, it is a loving fantasy. The student has to ration the expression without leaving the situation, for this it helps a lot to listen. The professor also advises controlling the inner state more. In a specific moment of passion, an 8th “string breaker” can be played and then it returns to calm, it is the twilight that is fading (Ophelia in the river).
Sometimes it seems that it is obligatory to do “something” to demonstrate that we make music, but that must be invisible, we have to make music without letting see how we do it. You can highlight the important note and not the filler to give space to the note (it works a lot in Schumann and other composers). They work on expressive passages and give some details of the part of the nightingale. Luis
Language: Spanish
