Canciones Clásicas Españolas vol. I

synthesized demo recordings:
1. La mi sola, Laureola

2. Al Amor

3. ¿Corazón, porqué pasáis

4. El Majo celoso

5. Con amores, la mi madre

6. Del Cabello más sutil

7. Chiquitita la novia

Fernando J. Obradors (1897–1945, Spain) was a composer, conductor and pianist. He taught himself harmony and counterpoint, and then completed his musical training in Paris before embarking on a professional career as a pianist. In addition to touring Europe as a concert pianist, he composed operettas and zarzuelas which were premiered in Barcelona in the 1920’s.

Obradors’ best known works are the four volumes of Canciones Clásicas Españolas for voice and piano, composed over a twenty-year period between 1921 and 1941. In these art songs, now performed throughout the world, he set poetry by a wide range of Spanish poets spanning multiple centuries. The overarching theme of the first volume is love, and the music is colorfully influenced by flamenco and the Spanish guitar.  

1. La mi sola, Laureola (Mine alone, Laureola) (Original Key)
2. Al Amor (To Love) (Original Key)
3. ¿Corazón, porqué pasáis (My heart, why do you pass?) (Original Key)
4. El Majo celoso (The jealous boyfriend) (Original Key)
5. Con amores, la mi madre (With love, my mother) (Transposed down a semi-tone)
6. Del Cabello más sutil (Of hair most fine) (Transposed down a whole-tone)
7. Chiquitita la novia (Tiny is the bride) (Transposed down a minor third)

Print versions available through Classical Vocal Reprints. PDF downloads available below.