De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
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L'Auditori Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona

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Desire and death are the ingredients of La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), written by Claude Debussy in the midst of his Wagnerian period: a cantata inspired by a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which recaptures the evocative atmosphere of both the poem and the oil painting of the same name.
Written in memory of a friend and admirer and premiered by Eugène Ysaÿe and Joseph Hollman at a time when his work had achieved great acclaim, La muse et le poète is a magnificent example of Camille Saint-Saëns’ polished lyrical style, giving soloists broad freedom of expression.
Few piano concertos written during the last one hundred years have such symbolic connotations as Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D major, one of Ravel’s most well-rounded works, composed for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right hand during the First World War.
Program
- Claude Debussy: La damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel) (1887-1888; rev. 1902) 20'
- Camille Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète (The Muse and the Poet) in E minor, Op. 132 (1910) 17'
- Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) (1909-1915) 23'
- Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-1930) 19'
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