Javier Negrín - Enrique Granados: Goyesca No.4 "Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor"

Recorded live @ the Odradek Itinerate Festival in Matta, Pescara on December 7th, 2013.

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Odradek Records is a democratic classical cooperative, non-profit and artist-controlled label, organized to separate music-making from markets. A&R is decided by roster members directly, democratically evaluating anonymously submitted demos. Our goal is to create a system of meritocratic evaluation analogous to the scientific peer review process, that is both fair and produces credible and artistically strong albums with real cultural relevance, which respond to the public's expectations of justice while cutting through their marketing fatigue. The result so far has been an eclectic group of artists, united by excellent musicianship and an adventurous approach to repertoire, creating albums that speak for themselves musically. Within months of launching, one title received the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year Award, and the roster now boasts 25 artists from 13 different countries, and has programmed yearly festivals featuring the artists in 8 cities of Italy and Spain. We are mainly pianists so far, but have one symphony orchestra, one medieval-instrument ensemble, one modern ensemble, a piano trio, violinist, cellist, and guitarist, all in the process of making their CDs with us.

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Javier Negrín made his solo debut at the Wigmore Hall in London in 2004 performing works by Ravel and Jindřich Feld, and since then has enjoyed a very distinguished career, performing as a soloist and chamber musician in important venues in Europe, South America and the Far East. Since a very early age he has been involved in playing the big romantic repertoire for piano and orchestra, including performances of concertos by Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, working with conductors such as Lawrence Leighton Smith, Adrian Leaper, José Luis Novo, Alejandro Posadas, Neil Thomson, Claus Effland, Yaron Traub, John Neschling and Roberto Montenegro.

A major prizewinner at the Royal College of Music, where he also held a Junior Fellowship, Javier has been the recipient of many awards in his career, including the prizes for the best interpretations on Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Ravel and virtuoso studies. His main influences were the late Yonty Solomon, himself a pupil of Myra Hess, Armando Alfonso, son of the famous Spanish pianist Javier Alfonso, and most recently Howard Shelley and Joaquín Achúcarro.

Javier has been hailed by the critics as a very intuitive interpreter who also possesses very strong intellectual prowess. He is passionate about literature and arts and his interests in music range from the baroque to the 21st century, with a special affinity for the music of Bach and Chopin. He also serves in the faculty of Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid, where he lives at present.

Javier is very honored to be part of the Odradek project with Scriabin´s Travel Preludes CD (Odradek, 2012), and has also recorded a CD for clarinet and piano with music by Lutoslawski, Nielsen, Poulenc and Debussy (Linn records, 2006) and made a record for the Spanish National Radio with works by Schumann, Scriabin, Granados and García Abril. Javier was born in the Canary Islands, (Spain) in 1977.

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