Between 1968 and 1974 he made a series of recordings in Barcelona, with producer Antonio Armet, of Beethoven, Fauré, Albéniz, and Turina.
He has an older brother, Pierre (born 1985), a younger half brother named Louis (born 1997) from his father's second marriage to Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz as well as a younger half sister named Giulia (born 2011) from his father's third marriage to Carla Bruni.
Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.
They include recordings dedicated to the works of Verdi and Rossini, Mexican and Spanish music, the works of Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel M. Ponce and Carlos Chávez, and the integral series of the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
He made some 20 film appearances but his career was at its peak in the mid to late 1940s, with Lopez appearing in Albéniz in 1946 and A sangre fría in 1947 in which he starred alongside Tito Alonso and Amelia Bence.
Scholars pinpoint the Roman manor Alba, a milestone in the Astorga-Bordeaux Roman road (extending west to east), in the near-by village of Albeniz (some others point to Salvatierra).
He was the first among his peers to perform complete cycles of works by Frédéric Chopin (4 Ballades, 24 Etudes op. 10 and op. 25, the Waltzes, 21 Nocturnes, 4 Rondos) and Isaac Albéniz's (Suite española).