Alba Ventura and Francisco Fullana
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L'Auditori Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona
Image courtesy of L'Auditori.
Nearby France has been an inspiration for many of Spain’s best composers over the last two hundred years. This fruitful musical connection reached its peak in the creative atmosphere of Paris of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was there that Granados and Turina studied and shaped their compositional languages, and were influenced by musicians of the caliber of Debussy and Ravel, whose little-known early Violin Sonata No. 1 (“Sonate postume”) will be performed at L’Auditori.
The Spain-France cross-fertilization can also be seen in Poulenc’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, dedicated to Federico García Lorca. In this dialogue between the music of the two countries, violinist Francisco Fullana and pianist Alba Ventura also perform music by two of the greatest Spanish violin virtuosos, who gave concerts all over Europe: Manén and Sarasate.
Finally, a spiritual note is struck by Et in terra pax for solo violin by the Catalan composer Salvador Brotons (1959), which was written as a plea for peace in a world at war.
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