My Choice - Ernesto Lecuona: Spanish Suite, Andalucia

Spanish-Suite "Andalucia" by Ernesto Lecuona. We're showing photos of Spain. For much of the last century, Ernesto Lecuona's piano suite Andalucía was the hidden source of a variety of musical compositions and performances. Its fiery finale, Malagueña, exists in several arrangements for guitar, became a popular song with a text by Marian Banks, and showed up for years on easy listening LPs by the likes of Andre Kostelanetz and the 101 Strings. Other pieces from the suite also appeared with added English texts, and no doubt Lecuona himself popularized the music during his years in New York as leader of the band Lecuona's Cuban Boys. But the original work, written around 1927, was largely forgotten outside of Cuba until pianist Thomas Tirino began to revive the music of the "Cuban Gershwin" in the late '90s. What Tirino revealed, to growing acclaim at first centered on South Florida, was a splendid six-movement concert showpiece that fused dynamic pianism rooted in Romantic virtuosity, Spanish and gypsy folk rhythms, and Lecuona's own unerring melodic sense. Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (1895 -1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality. Lecuona started early studying piano under his sister Ernestina Lecuona, a famed composer in her own right. He later studied at the Peyrellade Conservatoire under Antonio Saavedra and the famous Joaquin Nin. Lecuona graduated from the National Conservatory of Havana with a Gold Medal for interpretation when he was sixteen. And he performed outside of Cuba at the Aeolian Hall (New York) in 1916. Music is copyrighted by its corresponding owners. No infringement of copyright is meant and if it does infringe, please message me and I'll remove it. ----------------------------------------------------------- Our Youtube Channels are: MYCHOICE MUSIC VIDEOS mychoicegrech1 Youtube Channel: /user/mychoicegrech#g/u mychoicealfred2 Youtube Channel /user/mychoicealfred2#g/u mychoicealfred3 Youtube Channel /user/mychoicealfred3#g/u mychoicealfred4 Youtube Channel /user/mychoicealfred4#g/a mychoicealfred5 Youtube Channel /view_play_list?p=547269149B55DB15 MALPEN04 MUSIC VIDEOS (Older Channel) malpen04 "My Choice" series MASTER Links: (Music videos) /view_play_list?p=0F1289004B6D27688 /view_play_list?p=DE2FCD8BB79C5712 /view_play_list?p=C437EED27B30FDBE /view_play_list?p=FFFF6F8D972D5DD5 MALPEN04 MISCELLANEOUS (Non music video) /view_play_list?p=83A31C1D156BB320 MALTA, MALAYSIA & OTHER (Jasmine's Videos) jasalf5959 Youtube Channel /user/JasAlf5959#g/u

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