• In his piano suite Goyescas Spanish composer Enrique Granados was inspired by paintings by Goya, each painting telling its own story, and together forming one continuous tale, an fictional opera (in fact he wrote

this actual opera with the title Goyescas, rarely performed nowadays).

• The Goyescas are one of Spain’s most important and indeed iconic piano suites (together with the Iberia suite by Albeniz), its full blooded Romanticism is infused with the sounds, rhythms and perfumes of Granados’ native country Spain.

• French pianist Jean-Francois Dichamp intersperses the Goyescas suite with several sonatas by Scarlatti and Soler, works which, though separated some 150 years, share the same Andalusian spirit.

• Jean-Francois Dichamp was a student of Nikita Magaloff and Maria Curcio (a Schnabel student). “A very sensitive artist”(The Times), “A pianist of great delicacy, subtle and elegant” (Le Monde de la Musique), “His Chopin

is at once thorough and profound” (Diapason).

Granados: Goyescas (piano suite)
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K8 in G minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K25 in F sharp minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K141 in D minor
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K193 in E flat major
Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K198 in E minor
Soler, A: Keyboard Sonata No. 21 in C sharp minor