Palace Concerts
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Martha Argerich piano
Charles Dutoit conductor
I
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat. suite No. 2) (1919-21)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor Op. 54 (1845)
II
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring, 1910-13. Rev. 1947)
Diaghilev's Shadow
They have already been at the Festival in 2022, but the brilliant Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and the great Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit cross paths again in Granada, this time with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which makes its debut in our festival. It will be with Schumann and one of the greatest concertos of the 19th-century repertoire, in which Argerich has been leaving traces of almost unsurpassed mastery for decades. Dutoit will open the program with one of the suites taken from the ballet The Three-cornered Hat by Falla, a work that the Cádiz-born maestro adapted for Diaguilev's Ballets Russes from his pantomime El Corregidor y la Molinera and which was premiered in London in 1919 with one of the greatest successes in his career. A few years earlier, in 1913 and in Paris, Stravinsky had shaken up the month of May with his bold and exciting Rite of Spring, another ballet written for Diaghilev.
