A guitar concert in the Festspielhaus! You rarely hear anything like that in Germany, where the instrument is quickly associated with campfires or rock music.
In Spain, on the other hand, the guitar stands for pride and sorrow: strict rhythm and its opposite, losing oneself in improvisation.
The Spanish national composer Manuel de Falla uses both rhythmic rigour and improvisational freedom to create a musical monument to the French composer Claude Debussy.
This masterpiece is just one of the pieces to be discovered in this matinee.
Programm
Francis Poulenc
Sarabande for guitar
Frederic Mompou
Canción y Danza no. X after two cantigas by King Alfonso X.
Scottish lute manuscripts
A Scott's Tune, Mervell's Sarabande, The Canaries,
Holi and Faire, Ladie Lie Neer Me
François Couperin
Excerpts from the "Ordres pour clavecin
Frederic Mompou
Preludio, Coral, Canción and Muñeira from the "Suite Compostelana
Manuel de Falla
Homenaje pour "Le tombeau de Claude Debussy"
Thomas Adès
Commissioned work, composed for Sean Shibe
Artist
Sean Shibe GUITAR
Concert sponsorship: Silke Weber
