We'll take a musical journey to the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey on 9/30.
9/2 South American Treasures One was born of Italian immigrants, one was born in Berlin, and one was born into one of South America's most distinguished musical families. Carlos Guastavino, Juan Antonio Sánchez, and Evencio Castellanos all contributed to and enriched not only the musical life of Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela, but of Western classical music as well.
9/9 Transcribed & Transformed A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Iberian-inspired orchestral work Capriccio Espagnole, Isaac Albéniz piano suite Chants d'Espagne, and more, with guitarist Jorge Caballero and the Brazilian Guitar Quartet.
9/16 Contemporary Guitar Classics Andrés Segovia, Victor Villadangos, and Carlos Barbosa-Lima perform contemporary guitar classics from Argentina’s Quique Sinesi, Spain’s Joaquín Rodrigo, and Puerto Rico’s Ernesto Cordero.
9/23 Falla and the Spanish Theater Manuel de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat or Le tricorne) premiered July 22, 1919. Falla’s original plan for Alarcón’s novel was to produce it as a pantomime-farce. Joaquín Turina conducted the premiere of its first incarnation, The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife on April 7, 1917. We'll hear the complete work, along with selections from El Amor Brujo.
9/30 The Red Book of Montserrat The Shrine of the Virgin of Montserrat was a major pilgrimage site in the 14th century. El Llibre Vermell Red Book of Montserrat, or is a 14th-century collection of devotional texts and music for the pilgrims to the Catalonian Montserrat Monastery. Tonight we hear selections from the six music folios contained in El Llibre Vermell, presented by La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI, under the direction of Jordi Savall. Recorded live in concert November 25, 2013, in Barcelona’s Gothic Santa Maria del Pi Church.
