Keyboard Stylings of Blasco de Nebra
Program Notes for Musica della sera broadcast of Thursday, November 29, 2012. (Available for streaming until 12/6/12 on the KUSP Music Show Player .) This week's program of Musica della sera opens with a keyboard composition of Manuel Blasco de Nebra (1750-1784). He, like his father, was organist for the Seville Cathedral. He died young, and only a fraction of his compositions have survived─but enough to show his expressive talent. The influence of Domenico Scarlatti is immediately noticeable, but more the introspective sweetness than the dazzling virtuosity. I only recently discovered this composer from this Harmonia Mundi recording that KUSP possesses It features Spanish pianist Javier Perianes , also new to me. The virtuosity and sweetness of Domenico Scarlatti follows in a performance of Georgian-American pianist Eteri Andjaparidze . I discovered Scarlatti in my young teens through the wonderful recordings of Vladimir Horowitz, so I'm quite at ho...