Miguel Colom, violin, Fernando Arias, cello, Álvaro Octavio, flute. Ángel Luis Sánchez, oboe and Pablo Barragán, clarinet.

Centered around the figure of the great harpsichordist Benjamin Alard, this concert, on the 150th anniversary of Falla's birth, explores his Concerto for Harpsichord and Five Instruments, a pivotal work that opened new avenues for 20th-century Spanish music by looking to the past with a thoroughly modern sensibility. Scarlatti's four sonatas and Bach's Italian Concerto lead us into Falla's musical language, while the presence of José María Sánchez Verdú allows us to view the past through an avant-garde reinterpretation: in his arrangements of Vázquez and Victoria, Renaissance music acquires unprecedented dimensions, while in Las ínsulas extrañas (The Strange Islands ), written in dialogue with Falla's Concerto and inspired by Saint John of the Cross, a fertile journey of resonances and soundscapes unfolds, always with the harpsichord at its center.

Program

Tomás Luis de Victoria / José María Sánchez-Verdú

Tantum ergo (arrangement for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello, 2024)

José María Sánchez-Verdú (1968)

The strange islands for keyboard, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello (2024)

Domenico Scarlatti

4 Harpsichord Sonatas : K 159, K 461, K 208 and K 118

Johann Sebastian Bach

Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971

Juan Vásquez / José María Sánchez-Verdú

I come from the poplars, mother (arrangement for clarinet and cello, 2024)

Manuel de Falla

Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello (1923-26)

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