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A reflection on sharps and flats while working on Scriabin and Granados, and how notation can quietly shape musical imagination.

What does it mean to listen like a composer? This reflection explores interpretation, harmony, and musical perception through the experience of playing Granados’s Goyescas. It looks at how listening to harmony and sound from within the music can reveal the core of a piece, beyond theory and analysis.

A personal reflection on Enrique Granados as a teacher, exploring how his approach to interpretation, emotion, and pedagogy resonates with lived musical experience.

A snowy day, a quiet room, and Alicia de Larrocha’s Granados. Listening slowly, I found myself drawn not to the famous Nightingale, but to the deeper balance of Goyescas and the improvisatory spirit behind it. A reflection on listening, improvisation, and finding one’s place inside a composer’s world.