Navarra

• Originally for piano, this work was intended as part of the suite Iberia, which depicts impressions of regions in Spain.¹
• Navarra was incomplete at Albéniz’s death. It was completed in 1912 by Albéniz’s student Déodat de Séverac.²
• Navarra was orchestrated by Albéniz’s friend, violinist Enrique Fernández Arbós, who had also orchestrated Iberia at Albeniz’s request.³

“Shamelessly cheap“

Albeniz’s opinion of his own work, Navarra. That’s why he never completed it. ⁴

1. Frances Barulich, “Albéniz, Isaac,” Grove Music Online, accessed July 8, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000000421.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Walter Aaron Clark, “Navarra,” Hyperion Records Limited, accessed July 8, 2019, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W65_GBAJY0547709.