Mompou: Piano Works Marina Staneva

• Federico Mompou (1893 - 1987): Paisajes:
• 1 Mompou: Paisajes: I. La Fuente y la campana 04:03
• 2 Mompou: Paisajes: II. El lago 04:36
• 3 Mompou: Paisajes: III. Carros de Galicia 04:40
• Variations sur un thème de Chopin:
• 4 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: I. Thème 00:49
• 5 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: II. Variation I. Tranquillo 00:55
• 6 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: III. Variation II. Gracioso 00:51
• 7 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: IV. Variation III. Lento [for the left hand] 01:15
• 8 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: V. Variation IV. Espressivo 01:49
• 9 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VI. Variation V. Temnpo di Mazurka 01:14
• 10 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VII. Variation VI. Recitativo 01:51
• 11 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: VIII. Variation VII. Allegro leggiero 00:54
• 12 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: IX. Variation VIII. Andante dolce e espressivo 02:29
• 13 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: X. Variation IX. Valse 02:06
• 14 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XI. Variation X. Évocation. Cantabile molto espressivo 02:44
• 15 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XII. Variation XI. Lento dolce e legato 02:39
• 16 Mompou: Variations sur un thème de Chopin: XIII. Variation XII. Galope y Epílogo 03:46
• Cançons i Danses:
• 17 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: I. Quasi moderato 03:05
• 18 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: II. Lento 03:05
• 19 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: III. À Frank Marshall. Modéré 03:52
• 20 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: IV. À madame la Princesse Bassiano. Moderat 04:02
• 21 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: V. Lento liturgico 04:52
• 22 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VI. À Arthur Rubinstein. Cantabile espressivo 03:57
• 23 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VII. Lento 03:03
• 24 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: VIII. Moderato cantabile con sentimento 03:51
• 25 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: IX. À Gonzalo Soriano. Cantabile espressivo 04:00
• 26 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: X. Sobre dos Cantigas del Rey Alfonso X (Siglo XII) À S.A.R. la Infanta Da. Maria Cristina de Borbón Battenberg. Larghetto molto cantabile 03:47
• 27 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: XI. À Rafael Puyana. Lent et majestueux 04:22
• 28 Mompou: Cançons i Danses: XII. À la mémoire de Léon Fargue. Molto cantabile 03:31
• Jeunes Filles au Jardin (Bonus Track):
• 29 Mompou: Jeunes Filles au Jardin (Bonus Track) 03:32
• Total Runtime 01:25:40

Info for Mompou: Piano Works

Following her acclaimed début recital, Marina Staneva returns with a programme of works by the Spanish-Catalan composer Federico Mompou. The programme opens with Paisajes (Landscapes), written in 1942, 1947, and 1960. The first two pieces are dedicated to the Catalan pianist Carmen Bravo, whom Mompou met after his return from Paris to Barcelona in 1942, and subsequently married. Mompou’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin were started in 1938, but completed in 1957 upon a commission from the Royal Ballet in London for a successor to The House of Birds (a 1955 ballet which used piano pieces by Mompou orchestrated by John Lanchbery). The Chopin ballet was never produced, but the piano variations remain. The twelve Cançons i danses (Songs and Dances) were composed between 1921 and 1962, and the form for each is broadly similar: a slow ‘cançó’ (song) followed by a more animated ‘dansa’ (dance), but the pattern sometimes varies, and these pieces are anything but formulaic. Mompou intended to provide ‘a contrast between lyricism and rhythm, to avoid one collection of songs and another of dances’.

Marina Staneva, piano

Marina Staneva
Bulgarian pianist Marina Staneva was awarded the title Young Steinway Artist in 2020. Her debut album ‘Slavic Roots’ was released by Chandos Records in April 2022 and named Album of the Weekend on Radio Scala and Critic’s Choice in International Piano Magazine.

Marina has been praised for her ‘impressive performance’ (BBC Music Magazine), ‘superb pianism and sense of projection’ (Gramophone Magazine) and ‘fearsome technique and bravura emotionalism’ (Pianist Magazine). She has impressed critics with her ‘passion and commitment, bringing a wealth of colour’ (BBC Music Magazine), ‘careful crafted rubato, splendid technique and a tone that rings through from the quietest sections to the many, many thick-textured fortissimo passages’ (Rob Challinor) and acclaimed as ‘an artist of stature’ (Musical Opinion Magazine).

Marina was a 2019 Sam Hutchings Piano Prize Recipient, a 2018 Britten-Pears Young Artist and a full scholarship recipient at the Brancaleoni Festival, Italy in 2018.

Marina has performed at Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall, the Royal Opera House and The Inner Temple in London, Liverpool Philharmonic and Britten Studio in Snape Maltings. She has recorded for Classic FM and took part in “The First Global Granados Marathon” broadcast live from Milton Court Concert Hall.

Marina has appeared at many festivals as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist - Oxenfoord International, Oxford Lieder, King’s Lynn, Lichfield Festival, The Holland International Music Sessions, London Contemporary Festival, Dopo il rumore - Italy, Brancaleoni Festival - Italy, ppIANISSIMO - Bulgaria and Varna Summer - Bulgaria, and has performed for the Pushkin House in London, Mendelssohn Foundation and the Schubert Society of Britain.

Marina completed her Masters and Advanced Diploma Degrees with Distinction followed by the Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London supported by the Guildhall Trust. She studied with Philip Jenkins, Pamela Lidiard and most recently with Alisdair Hogarth, the last of whom she considers her mentor. Prior to moving to London, Marina obtained her Bachelor Degree from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria where she studied with Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova and Iliya Chernaev.

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