Enrique Escudé-Cofiner left close to six hundred works registered with the SGAE. Two catalogues live side by side. One is popular: more than two hundred recorded songs, sung for decades by Manolo Escobar, Sara Montiel, Antonio Machín, Pedro Vargas or Jorge Sepúlveda, and La portuguesa turned into Aïe mon cœur by Dalida in 1959, with more than seventy versions since. The other is concert music — for piano, for orchestra, for flamenco guitar and orchestra — most of which stayed in manuscript until the Foundation began publishing and recording it in 2019. The four albums below are the result. Each is a new reading by a performer of today, not an archival reconstruction.
Embrujo (2019) — Carles Marigó, piano
The Foundation’s first project, recorded at Audiovisuals de Sarrià in Barcelona. Pianist and composer Carles Marigó transcribed the unpublished piano works directly from the manuscripts — the four-movement suite Estampas gitanas, the sardana Juliol (1936) and two intermezzos — and Boileau published his editions in 2020. The album also includes Images d’Espagne (published by Salabert in Paris in 1969 but never premiered), two tangos, Poncho and Pasión tango, and an improvisation by Marigó. It was reviewed by Opera World, Ritmo, Melómano and Mundo Clásico and broadcast by Radio Clásica. On 30 June 2023 pianist Douglas Riva gave the New York premiere of Embrujo at The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, in a programme with Albéniz, Granados, Turina and Casals marking the Sorolla exhibition.
Somorrostro. El mar baila por la playa (2022) — María Camahort & Anders Clemens Øien, guitars
The guitar duo of María Camahort and Anders Clemens Øien recorded the Estampas gitanas, the Fantasía en do, two intermezzos and Camahort’s own Homenaje a Cofiner in Castellón in August 2022; Boileau published the guitar scores that October. The title refers to the Somorrostro, the vanished shanty beach of Barcelona where flamenco lived in the composer’s youth: on 24 September 2022 the duo played the Rondó Gitano on the breakwater facing that beach. They took the Estampas to Milton Court in London in November 2022 and presented the album at the SGAE in Madrid and Barcelona in early 2023. The magazine Melómano awarded it the Melómano de Oro in April 2023; TV3, RNE, Radio Clásica and Catalunya Ràdio covered it.
No se lo digas a nadie (2022) — the songs, reimagined
Produced by the Foundation, this album takes eleven of Cofiner’s popular songs of the mid-twentieth century and rewrites them for today: arrangements by Carles Marigó, sung and played by Anna Colom, Ismael Alcina, David Domínguez, Exequiel Coria and Isabel Rojo Escudé-Cofiner. It was premiered on 9 February 2023 in the Tete Montoliu hall of L’Auditori de Barcelona, within the Emergents festival, and covered by TV3’s evening news and the magazine Núvol. A documentary of the same title, about the composer’s life, is in production.
Suite Flamenca (2025) — Diego Amador, piano
Diego Amador, winner of Spain’s National Music Prize and one of the most singular pianists in contemporary flamenco, recorded, performed and mastered this album entirely on his own. It reinterprets five piano works — Rondó Gitano, Embrujo, Imágenes de España, Sierra Morena and Nocturno — from inside the flamenco idiom without abandoning the original score. Presented at the SGAE’s Frederic Mompou hall in Barcelona on 25 March 2025 and dedicated to his brother, the guitarist Rafael Amador, it won Best Instrumental Album and Best Arrangement at the third Spanish Music Academy Awards on 27 May 2026 — the most important recognition yet for a recording devoted to Cofiner’s music.
The Gypsy Concert (1976) — with Sabicas
A concerto for flamenco guitar and symphony orchestra in four movements (Guajira, Soleá, Rondeña, Zapateado), composed with the legendary guitarist Sabicas in 1976 and premiered only in 1993 at the Córdoba International Guitar Festival, with Rafael Riqueni as soloist and the Córdoba Orchestra under Leo Brouwer. Francesc Badía prepared a reduction for thirty players, published by Boileau in 2022, and on 29 October 2023 the work returned to L’Auditori de Barcelona within the Ciutat Flamenco festival, played by guitarist Alejandro Hurtado and the OSTO youth orchestra under Albert Torrebella, co-produced with the Taller de Músics and ESMUC. On 30 January 2024 the Zapateado was performed at the Teatro Real in Madrid by the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Hurtado.
Songs for solo guitar (in progress)
A collective album begun in 2023: María Camahort arranges Cofiner’s best-known songs for solo guitar and different performers record them at the JSM studios in Castellón. Una flor en el camino, Tengo miedo de ti, Mari Carmen, María Soledad, No se lo digas a nadie, Pasión tango and No te molestes más are already released on YouTube and Spotify, with scores from JSM Editions. Elena Ortega and Jonathan Ross Parkin recorded further pieces in the summer of 2026; more are to come.
Where to listen and where to find the scores
All recordings are on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. Piano and guitar scores are published by Editorial Boileau (Barcelona) and JSM Editions. Performers, programmers and researchers who need orchestral materials, manuscripts or further information can contact the Foundation; the composer’s personal archive is held at the SGAE’s Documentation and Archive Centre (CEDOA) in Madrid. Detailed Spanish-language notes on each work are in the catálogo de obra.