Julian Bream | Tonadilla: La Maja de Goya | Enrique Granados

“Compare this [Dedicatoria] with the following piece Tonadilla: La maja de Goya from his [Granados’] mature years and one is immediately struck by the essential instrinsicality of the Spanish character, the Castillian gesture of dignity with a faint hint of disdain. The inspirational use of Goya’s famous paintings adds yet another Iberian dimension which latterly culminated in those wonderful pieces “Goyescas“ - his crowning achievement towards the end of his life.“ (J. Bream 1982)