Chamber Music
+Bach
Israel Galván dance
Benjamin Alard harpsichord and direction
Miguel Colom violin
Fernando Arias violoncello
Álvaro Octavio flute
Ángel Luis Sánchez oboe
Vicente Alberola clarinet
Manuel de Falla, between influence and creation
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Affettuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (for flute, violin and harpsichord. 1720-21)
José María Sánchez-Verdú (1968)
Las ínsulas extrañas (2024) *
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Harpsichord Sonata in B minor, K. 87 (L. 33)
Juan Vásquez (c. 1500-c. 1560) / José María Sánchez-Verdú
De los álamos vengo, madre (From the Poplars I come, Mother. arr. for clarinet and violoncello, 2024) *
Tomás Luis de Victoria (h. 1548-1611) / José María Sánchez-Verdú
Tantum ergo (Arr. for flute quintet, oboe, clarinet, violin and violoncello, 2024) *
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and violoncello (1923-26)
* Premiere. Commissioned by the Granada Festival
Performance without intermission
Keys to Falla
This tribute to one of the greatest compositions from Falla’s neoclassical period, his Concerto for Harpsichord and Five Instruments, is designed around the participation of the Sevillian dancer and choreographer Israel Galván, the French harpsichordist and organist Benjamin Alard –who acts as artistic director of the project– and the Cádiz-born composer José María Sánchez-Verdú. Commissioned by the Festival, Sánchez-Verdú has created a piece with the same instrumentation, which he has titled Las ínsulas extrañas (The Strange Tenements), and as an acknowledgment of the early Spanish music sources used by Falla for his work, he has made separate arrangements to pieces by Juan Vásquez and Tomás Luis de Victoria. The music by two of the greatest keyboard masters of all time, Scarlatti and Bach, will complete the suggested choreography, along with five renowned soloists.
