The Spanish Album represents classical musics resurgence in Spain in the mid-nineteenth century, and the nationalistic emphasis of the Romantic era certainly provided fertile ground for the use of the unique sounds of the Iberian Peninsula. In the realm of violin music, Pablo de Sarasate´s compositions revealed Romantic Spain to much of the world and were inspirations for many other composers´ violin works in the same vein.

Eric Wen has compiled a great representative survey of this musical ...