The anecdote of when the young Johannes Brahms appeared at the Schumanns' house is well known, Robert i Clara, with some of his first compositions under his arm, thus starting a personal and artistic relationship between the three musicians that would leave a deep mark on them. We will listen to Robert's three romances, dedicated to Clara and originally written for oboe, in the version for clarinet and piano as well as the second sonata of the op. 120, one of the last works that Brahms will write. The duo format by Claudia Aliaj, young promise of the Spanish clarinet who has already performed in halls such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Musikverein de Viena or the Carnegie Hall de Nova York i the pianist Xinès Xiaolu Zhang, brilliant first prize and audience prize of the last Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, they will be in charge of moving us to that shared space from which some of the most beautiful works of chamber music have emerged. The second part of the concert is quite different. In a transcription of the original for flute and piano, we will listen to the Sonata op. 94 by Sergei Prokofiev, a piece written between 1942 i 1943 en un context complex: the Soviet regime had evacuated its great creators far from the front, aware of its propaganda value. Prokofiev finds in this piece a kind of "classical refuge" but where we can also hear energetic fragments with great virtuoso demands, characteristics of his compositional language.
CLAUDIA OTHERS, CLARINET, I XIAOLU ZANG, PIANO
Schumann, Brahms, Prokófiev
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This year's Cañada Blanch Concert will be performed by soprano Èlia Casanova with her group La Tendresa, who will perform the recital “When love sings”, a program that brings together jewels from the s. XVI i XVII, with which they invite the public to let themselves be seduced by the music and poetry of an era in which love was sung with a touching sincerity and beauty. Through intimate songs and dances full of life, an emotional universe unfolds in which the lightness of love play coexists, the irony of disappointment, the passion that burns and the melancholy of absence. Music and words intertwine with surprising closeness, erasing the distance of time and speaking to today's listener with a clear and human voice.
ÉLIA CASANOVA AND THE TENDERSA
when love sings
