Rapsodie Espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody): Piano 4 Hands

The well-established Lago-Navarro Piano Duo — formed in 1997 by Spanish pianists Juan Lago and Belén Navarro — presents Rapsodie Espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody): Piano 4 Hands. An album with a repertoire that has featured prominently in their concerts over the past decade: works by non-Spanish composers inspired by Spanish popular music.

This foreign gaze upon Spain takes the form of four renowned orchestral works presented here in four-hand piano arrangements. In the cases of Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, the composers themselves prepared the four-hand piano versions. Debussy’s Ibéria was transcribed by his friend and collaborator André Caplet, while Emmanuel Chabrier’s España was arranged for four hands by the esteemed opera composer André Messager. Yet it is important to note that most of these works were originally conceived as pieces for two pianos before being orchestrated.

Lago-Navarro Piano Duo
Juan Lago, Pianist
Belén Navarro, Pianist