Mompou: 'Música callada'
Música callada (1959-1967), inspired by San Juan de la Cruz, is not only the peak of piano works by Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), but also one of the highest points of Spanish keyboard repertoire. Introspective music, moderate, elegant, pure, essential, more French than local – no trace of nationalistic folklorism: it deserves more attention than what it has been given. It is to be expected that over time it will be achieved. The mature vision of Perianes is not only inscribed per se along the lines of Frederic Mompou himself or of Colom, but it contributes a new approach that gives the music a more advanced aspect than is common.
February 2007
Babelia (El País), Ángel Carrascosa
The Art of the Sfumato (Recording of the Week, Música Callada. Mompou. Perianes)
Javier Perianes (born in Nerva, Huelva, 1978) amazes us once again with a mature approach of Música callada (1959-67) by the Catalán Frederic Mompou (1893-1987). Perianes’ version seems excellent to us because he understands the meaning and aroma of this music, truly silent for its capacity of intimate introspection and subtlety, and he has been able to penetrate it with utmost finesse, naturally developing the dampening technique while knowing how to give the attack the appropriate density and flesh.
January 2007
El Cultural (EL MUNDO), Arturo Reverter
Mompou: Música callada
To interpret this music well, three basic qualities are necessary: a beautiful sound, a sensitivity for dynamics and the ability to phrase in an expressive form without the slightest mannerism. All of this is exactly what Javier Perianes does, and the result is highly persuasive. Perianes’ sound, warm and delicate, completely fits this music, while his sense of tempo and phrasing remain absolutely natural, but always flexible. In conclusion, a laudable discographical release with a pianist who is worthwhile to know.
January 2007
Classics Today.com, David Hurwitz
Mompou: Música callada
The young Perianes, native of Huelva, shows among his values sensitivity, technical cleanness, naturalness in phrasing, sure vision of structures and an expository serenity. The suspended sonorities, the resonances, the expressive silences that characterize the twenty-eight pieces comprising the four books of this marvelous work are given to us with refinement and a sensational finesse.
December 2006
El Cultural ( EL MUNDO)
Mompou: Música callada
The recent CD from pianist Javier Perianes, dedicated to the Música Callada of Frederic Mompou (Harmonia Mundi) received a nomination for the prestigious Choc de "Le Monde de la Musique" in France and the distinction of "Exceptional CD" in the December 2006 issue of the Spanish magazine Scherzo.
Weak Beat of the Heart (Exceptional CD, Scherzo. Música Callada-Mompou. Perianes)
Music without artifice, without over-development, only what’s appropriate to not break the silence but perpetuate it and at the same time introduce it, and which Perianes offers us in all of its serene beauty. Perianes does not hesitate to underline the lyricism where he finds it. Beautiful music of such an intense sensitivity needs interpreters like Perianes to stay alive on just that “weak beat of the heart” as Mompou defined it.
December 2006
Revista Scherzo, Josep Pascual
Mompou: Música callada. (Nomination Le Choc de Le Monde de La Musique)
The Spanish pianist Javier Perianes interprets Música callada with an obligatory sobriety in addition to giving it resounding accents and an abundance of contrasts. But above all, what is important here is color, and Javier Perianes works this color with admirable intelligence and tact. For this, Perianes’ manner of playing astounds.
December 2006
Le monde la Musique, Jean Roy
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