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I s a a c A L B É N I Z

E L P O L O

iano Practical Editions pianopracticaleditions.com

I B E R I A b o o k I I I N º 2

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The fractured rhythm, suggesting anguished

sobbing and hiccups, is quite obsessive, Albeniz

varying an idée fixe with consummate skill and

hispanic musicianship. We are again deep in

Andalusia with palo flamenco, a dance in which

a cantaor sings of suffering while the troubled

and melancholic pulse further

accompanies a nostalgic second

theme.

Debussy was inspired by and

indebted to the music of

Albéniz, and Messiaen

considered El Polo a

masterpiece (Yvonne Loriod

performed all 4 volumes of

Iberia).

This particular flamenco style

originated in 18th century

Spanish music and was a source

of emotional intensity for Bizet

in the creation of Carmen. The

third volume of Iberia was

dedicated to Marguerite

Hasselmans, a fine pianist and

Fauré’s mistress, although

Albéniz also added a dedication to Joaquin

Malats, the Catalan pianist who gave the first

performance of Iberia in Madrid — “Al más

querido, al único, al artista vibrante y universal, a

Malats !!! “*

i a n o P r a c t i c a l E d i t i o n s

Musical Health Warning : please be aware that these editions are definitely not urtext and should be consulted together with a traditional version. They have been devised purely to help

solve musical and technical problems at the piano.

Please send comments and error reports to Ray Alston [email protected]

I s a a c A L B É N I Z 1 8 6 0 - 1 9 0 9

E L P O L O de la suite “IBERIA”

d u e n d e * R e n a t a D o m a g a l s k a

(with kind permission of the artist)

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When I first heard Alicia De Larrocha perform

Albeniz I was amazed and impressed by the

language and technical mastery of both

composer and interpreter. And when I was

finally able to attempt Iberia, I noticed that the

text (Éditions Salabert) was often difficult to

study: there were inaccuracies, many

accidentals and too many instructions,

coupled with sub-standard engraving; so I

decided to edit the music myself.

In spite of passing through a number of key

changes, the composer has curiously written

this work entirely with a key signature of 4

flats. Was this through negligence or by

design? If the former, I humbly offer this

edition which makes quite a few changes of

key and time signature, rendering, I believe,

the text easier to comprehend and play by

eliminating quite a few challenging

accidentals.

I plead guilty to not having religiously copied

every dot, accent, sign, pedal marking and

many others. Albeniz was very zealous in

having often embellished many, sometimes

conflicting, instructions and I have tried to

simplify the music within reason relying upon

present-day sophisticated pianists and

teachers reading the score philosophically.

Albéniz was an extrovert with a keen sense of

humour, loved and respected by all who knew

him. In this wonderful and imaginative music,

he was also flamboyant with long descriptions

in French and pedalling directions which

sometimes seem to be a whirlwind of far-

fetched impossibilities — unreasonable and

endearing as they are.

In addition to some suggested fingering, the

appendix contains comments, afterthoughts

and a French vocabulary. Redistribution

between the hands comes under close

scrutiny to make certain passages easier or

more persuasive.

* “To the most loved, to the unique, vibrant and universal artist, to Malats!!!”

* A heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity, often connected with flamenco

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Appendix

Comments, afterthoughts & vocabulary

• In the original editions there are several pedal signs and an observation by Debussy can provide a pertinent object lesson: “Pedalling cannot be written down. It varies from one instrument to another, from one room, or one hall, to another.”

• As with El Albaicín and Triana (and indeed most of Iberia), Albeniz presented El Polo with a unique key signature, appropriately modified in this edition.

• In an effort to simplify the text and eliminate accidentals, the time-signature of 3/8 has been replaced with 6/8, which also serves to clearly reveal hemiola and other rhythmic variants.

• For further simplification, short staccato notes and chords are written as quavers, and a crotchet replaces the combination — dotted quaver and semiquaver rest. Except where necessary, rests have been largely omitted, the clearly defined empty spaces serving to show silence.

• There has been some pruning of the composer’s multiple instructions in Italian and French.

• The number of staves varies according to the text, and in general stems up = RH and down = LH.

• poco S has been replaced with the marcato sign. • Some subsidiary grace notes have been omitted. • El Polo stretches a pianist to the limit, with hair-raising changes of register and

dynamics. As often as possible the text layout is presented with maximum clarity to enable the reader to choose the most musical and practical use of the meagre ten fingers at his or her disposition, keeping in mind that an Albeniz leap will improve balance in thick chordal writing and add a certain piquancy to the sound.

Duration: 7’15

This is Albeniz commenting on his own music written before Iberia: “Here are among them a few

things that are not completely worthless. The music is a bit infantile, plain, spirited; but in the end,

the people, our Spanish people, are something of all that. I believe that the people are right when

they continue to be moved by Córdoba, Mallorca, by the copla of the Sevillanas, by the Serenata,

and Granada. In all of them I now note that there is less musical science, less of the grand idea,

but more colour, sunlight, flavour of olives. That music of youth, with its little sins and absurdities

that almost point out the sentimental affectation... appears to me like the carvings in the

Alhambra, those peculiar arabesques that say nothing with their turns and shapes, but which are

like the air, like the sun, like the blackbirds or like the nightingales of its gardens. They are more

valuable than all else of Moorish Spain, which though we may not like it, is the true Spain”.

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