Marta Espinós, piano and commentaries
Friday 22 April 2016, at 10:30 pm
Salón General de Lectura, Biblioteca Nacional de España
Free entry after 8 pm, until all seats filled
Works by Tomás Marco*, Benet Casablancas*, Carlos Cruz de Castro*, Mercedes Zavala*, Manuel Angulo and José Zárate.
*World premiere. Commissioned from Marta Espinós for the 4th centenary of Cervantes’s death.
To celebrate the 4th centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), this project offers a selection of contemporary Spanish piano music – from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries – inspired by the writer and his legacy.
For this purpose, four of Spain’s most representative and internationally prestigious current composers have composed works specifically for the pianist Marta Espinós. They are Tomás Marco (national music prize 1969 and 2002), Benet Casablancas (national music prize 2013), Carlos Cruz de Castro and Mercedes Zavala. The project likewise includes pre-existing works by composers Manuel Angulo and José Zárate, also inspired by Cervantes.
This project, which promotes the creation of contemporary piano music, is designed to fill a gap in the national and international record market in relation to Cervantes. The chosen and commissioned repertoire portrays his work as an author, describes his characters, illustrates the landscapes that were the settings for his works, and even alludes to specific fragments of his literary production.
Through the generational diversity and aesthetic conception of the composers featured, the project underlines the work of the writer born in Alcalá de Henares not only as a multidisciplinary reference whose significance goes beyond the literary field to that of music but as a metaphor that has reinvented itself over the centuries to become part of the collective and universal symbolic imaginary.
Friday 22 April 2016, at 10:30 pm
Salón General de Lectura, Biblioteca Nacional de España
Free entry after 8 pm, until all seats filled
Works by Tomás Marco*, Benet Casablancas*, Carlos Cruz de Castro*, Mercedes Zavala*, Manuel Angulo and José Zárate.
*World premiere. Commissioned from Marta Espinós for the 4th centenary of Cervantes’s death.
To celebrate the 4th centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), this project offers a selection of contemporary Spanish piano music – from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries – inspired by the writer and his legacy.
For this purpose, four of Spain’s most representative and internationally prestigious current composers have composed works specifically for the pianist Marta Espinós. They are Tomás Marco (national music prize 1969 and 2002), Benet Casablancas (national music prize 2013), Carlos Cruz de Castro and Mercedes Zavala. The project likewise includes pre-existing works by composers Manuel Angulo and José Zárate, also inspired by Cervantes.
This project, which promotes the creation of contemporary piano music, is designed to fill a gap in the national and international record market in relation to Cervantes. The chosen and commissioned repertoire portrays his work as an author, describes his characters, illustrates the landscapes that were the settings for his works, and even alludes to specific fragments of his literary production.
Through the generational diversity and aesthetic conception of the composers featured, the project underlines the work of the writer born in Alcalá de Henares not only as a multidisciplinary reference whose significance goes beyond the literary field to that of music but as a metaphor that has reinvented itself over the centuries to become part of the collective and universal symbolic imaginary.
