de los Angeles,´´el mirar de la maja``, Enrique Granados, Gerald Moore

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was fascinated during his whole life by Goya´s paintings of majos and majas of the 18th century. He himself used to paint . Fernando Periquet, his librettist, had also written for the composer twelve poems on this subject. Granados set them in music in 1912 as ´´Tonadillas (solos with guitar) en un estilo antigo``.I love Granados´ (who was Catalan, by the way) overtly national music elements which are always defeated by his romantic melancholy. My favourite tonadilla is by far