20€ Cervantes
10€ Sala Unicaja de Conciertos María Cristina and Cine Albéniz
15% discount for tickets for the 5 concerts.
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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). String quartet no. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
Anna Margrethe Nilsen violin / Laura Romero violin / Eleanor Kendra James viola /
Gabriel Ureña cello
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) / Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
IIntermezzo and Scherzo from the sonata F-A-E, for violin and piano
Koh Gabriel Kameda violin / Kiril Keduk piano
Francesco Cilea (1866-1950). ‘E’ la solita storia del pastore’ (Lamento di Federico) from the opera L’Arlesiana, for tenor and piano
Giacomo Puccini (1859-1924). ‘E lucevan le stelle' from the opera Tosca, for tenor and piano
Nils Georg Nilsen tenor / Sergio Montero piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Grosse Fugue in Bb major, Op. 133, for string quartet
Beatrice Gagiu violin / Anna Margrethe Nilsen violin / Eleanor Kendra James viola /
Gabriel Ureña cello
Notice. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jesús Reina will not be able to perform at the festival, and the violinists Laura Romero Alba, Beatrice Gagiu and Erzhan Kulibaev will perform in his stead.
The festival opens with the grand unison of the Quartet in g minor by Grieg. The Norwegian composer manages to recreate an orchestral sonority, giving the impression that the quartet formation expands in a piece which evokes nordic nature.
Schumann and Brahms are meat and bone in this work in which the composers collaborated. It expresses the most sincere intimacy of the artist in the Intermezzo and, in the Scherzo, a defying gesture towards destiny from the artist.
The aria by Cilea, in crescendo, of the second act of L’Arlesiana, tells us of a deep and impossible love between Federico, its main character, and the girl of Arles, which gives the title to the opera.
Another love story takes the scene, this time depicting the painter Cavaradossi, who is in love with Tosca, and expresses his pain from the Castle Sant’Angelo where he awaits his execution.
Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge finishes the program. It is a vast work which consists of a double fugue. It was criticized in its premier as “incomprehensible” and described, in the words of Stravinsky, as a work which “will remain contemporary forever”.
20€ Cervantes
10€ Sala Unicaja de Conciertos María Cristina and Cine Albéniz
15% discount for tickets for the 5 concerts.
