Singing and Chiming. Ancient and Baroque Sounds

Artist

Benjamin Alard, organ

Program

Georg Muffat (1653-1704)

Toccata tertia

Chacona in G major

Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)

Fantasia sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, FbWV 201

Louis Couperin (1626-1661)

Seven Fantasies

Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584-1654)

Two Tientos de tiples

Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712)

Two Pasacalles

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Canzona, in D minor, BWV 588

Georg Muffat

Passacaglia in G minor

Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)

Point d’orgue sur les grands jeux, from A solis ortus (Livre d’orgue)

A Bach Interpreter on the Organ

Being one of the most acclaimed interpreters of Bach’s music on the harpsichord, Benjamin Alard will show his skills as an organist this time though, and he will do so on the instrument of the San Jerónimo monastery, originally by Fray Francisco Alejo Muñoz, who built it in 1727 for the convent of Santa Paula. On the program, the great French keyboardist mixes French and German traditions. And, of course, there will be Bach, but also Froberger, whose art, especially for the harpsichord, was the foundation for the development of various styles in the north and south, and he will prove it with the music by Muffat as well as that by the French organists (Grigny, Louis Couperin). But Alard also approaches Spain, to account for two of the most important masters of the great Iberian organ tradition, the Sevillian Correa de Arauxo and the Valencian Cabanilles.

Concert with no interval

In co-production with: Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical