🇪🇸Enrique Granados ： Album de Melodias Paris 1888 – Memories Gone By

Granados’s “Memories Gone By,” included in Album de Melodias Paris 1888, is a piano miniature whose appeal lies in the expressive shaping of its melody. Rather than emphasizing large-scale development, it invites the listener to savor the changing character and resonance of the central melodic line as the music unfolds in a unified flow. The right-hand melody should be sung naturally, with careful attention to the peaks of each phrase and to subtle musical breathing. Keep the left hand and inner voices soft enough to support without covering the melody. Avoid rushing the tempo, and allow slight pauses at the musical junctures to bring out the reflective atmosphere suggested by the title.