Ms. de Larrocha was esteemed for her elegant Mozart performances and for her interpretations of Albéniz, Granados, Mompou and other Spanish composers. By Allan Kozinn Iberia,” has had a strong ...

The rise of the virtuoso pianist during the Romantic period led to a serious decline in the public’s appreciation of quiet musicianship. As a result, so much of the best music from the nineteenth ...

One of the undisputed pianistic icons of the last half-century, Alicia de Larrocha might be expected at this point in her long, glorious career to rest on her laurels. But no. As she showed again in ...

Her first record was released before she was 10; later she toured with the L.A. Philharmonic and performed regularly at New York's Lincoln Center, featured in its Mostly Mozart Festival. Alicia de ...

Famed pianist Alicia de Larrocha died September 25. She was 86. Here is a full-length obituary about her, from the Telegraph in London. The Spanish-born musician recorded dozens of albums and toured ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Alicia de Larrocha, a former child prodigy considered by many to have been the best Spanish pianist in history, has died in Barcelona at the age of 86, officials said. "She was an ...

It was a what’s-right-with-this-picture scenario at Ventura College Theater last week, when Alicia de Larrocha came to town. It’s a rare enough experience to hear a musician of her lofty stature in ...

In Barcelona one spring morning in 1928, Alicia de Larrocha’s piano teacher played her a little piece by the Spanish pianist-composer Enrique Granados (1867-1916). As she remembers the occasion now, ...

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AS well as being an outstanding pianist in the classical and romantic European repertoire, Alicia de Larrocha championed and gave a degree of worldwide respectability, perhaps more so than anyone else ...

On this sunny Friday afternoon, this seems just the thing. The great Spanish pianist plays Maurice Ravel's shimmering "Alborada del Gracioso." Ravel wrote "Alborada" in 1905, one of five parts in ...