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| A lion guards the entrance to the cave of the knights at Blaník |
The final tone-poem of the Má vlast cycle is entitled Blaník. In a Slav version of the Arthurian legend, a cave in the White Mountain, Blaník, holds the sleeping Hussite knights, heroes awaiting the summons to ride forth once more to save the Czech people from oppression. Smetana uses this story to build a stirring, patriotic finale to his cycle that, at its peroration, combines the noble Vyšehrad theme with the solemn music of the Hussite chorale.
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| Francisco Goya: El pelele (The Straw Man) |
Perhaps the best know work by Enrique Granados is his set of six piano pieces (seven if you include El pelele) entitled Goyescas (pieces styled on the paintings and drawings of Goya). We will listen to and discuss three of them: El fandango del candil (The candlelit fandango), Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor (Lament, or The Love-sick Girl and the Nightingale) and El pelele (The straw man).
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