{"product_id":"granados-e-piano-music-vol-2-goyescas","title":"Granados, E.: Piano Music, Vol.  2 - Goyescas","description":"Any new release of Goyescas faces unavoidable comparison to Alicia de Larrocha's standard-setting interpretation (her 1976 Decca version is the finest of her four recordings). Happily, Douglas Riva's persuasive playing stands up well to such formidable competition. Having prepared a critical edition of Granados' piano works, Riva knows this music cold, and dispatches its colorful, multi-leveled textures and idiosyncratic figurations with fluent elegance. True, he doesn't command De Larrocha's wide vocabulary of articulations, nor her fearless dynamism. Yet his stylish, clear-cut playing benefits from engineering that's superior to Decca's tubby sonics. As a bonus, Riva includes the previously unrecorded \"Serenata goyesca\", a slight, rather inconclusive piece that may have formed part of Goyescas' first draft. Riva provides his own excellent, informative annotations. A highly recommended release. --Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52027554365720,"sku":"636943440322","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/290282.jpg?v=1777938011","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/granados-e-piano-music-vol-2-goyescas","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}