Granados - Goyesca No. 4 'Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor' (Prats) Audio + Sheet music 

I really love when the main theme is sung by the tenor at 3:00, with the right hand adding some glittery color. Liszt does this in his sonnets of Petrarch, it is a very special moment. The tenor range on the piano is wonderful for romantic melodies.

Minor ninth chords are powerful.

@@msck6114 He does this, although not simultaneously but in turn (L.H. baritone melody followed by "bird twittering" in both hands as a response to the baritone melody) in "St. Francis Preaching to the Birds". It's thoroughly charming! You should look it up and give it a listen!

She declared it indeed.... She was, since a child, a classical trained pianist... And an outstanding pop composer also...

"...Quiero tenerte muy cerca Mirarme en tus ojos, verte junto a mí Piensa que tal vez mañana Yo ya estaré lejos, muy lejos de ti Bésame, bésame mucho Como si fuera esta noche la última vez"... Yes "...I want you very close Look in your eyes, see you next to me Think that maybe tomorrow I will already be far, far away from you Kiss Me Kiss Me a Lot As if tonight were the last time. "

I think the Beatles sang Bésame Mucho :) also

It´s pure humanity.... We all are different, and have a different sound, feeling and soul....But this version is simply outstanding...

Mexican

There’s a stretch. I’ve played this piece for years and know it intimately. Most of the choices this pianist makes are not in the score and go beyond “interpretation.” The pianist is taking liberties he shouldn’t. Period.

eah, I've just come from Wikipedia.

@@markymarco2570 lol same thats why i'm here!

Take daily low-dose aspirin and correct this post

And nobody cares

WHATever.........

Let’s see your recording then! Music doesn’t have to be exactly what the score says. Is this what music is really about? Just following exactly what the score says without changing it up a little bit?

Hey Bart do you play? where can we listen to your recording? The pianist is Jorge Luis Prats, one of the worlds leading classical pianist from Cuba. I realize we are all entitled to our opinions but I really don't know why people feel the urge to respond on You Tube like their opinions matter to anyone, me included. This pianist has a wonderful technique and plays beautifully, PERIOD!!!

I thought Granados played it faster... and he wrote it.

Jeff M I do play. I have a PhD in musicology and performance. I’ve played the Rachmaninoff 3 with the Sydney symphony orchestra. I’ve given hundreds of recitals and I’ve played this piece many times. My comment stands.

@@bartwatts1921 poopoo cringe

This is a bit of a strange remark Bart. This piece is very elastic, and Prats certainly gives it that flexibility (for example, look carefully and he observes most but not all the rits. and a tempos). For my own sensibility, I don't agree with everything he does (I really dislike those downward arpeggios and the doubled bass note just before the final flourish does not make musical sense too me). However, the piece lives and breathes under his hands with his conceptualisation. I've spent the last couple of months working on this piece, and the primary thing I have learned is that there are a very large number of ways to interpret it within it's basic framework. Amusingly, I don't much like Granados' own performance !! I can't find any mention of you on the internet as a musicologist or playing with the SSO. Can you supply a link to that concert or to some of your hundreds of recitals ?