Benjamin Alard

CHAMBER CONCERT with Israel Galván (dance) MANUEL DE FALLA, ENTRE LA INFLUENCIA Y LA CREACIÓN (between influence and creation) Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 21:30 Venue: Patio de los inocentes del Hospital Real, Granada (Spain). Organizer: Festival de Granada Performance without intermission Programme JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Affettuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (for flute, violin and harpsichord. 1720-21). JOSÉ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ: Las ínsulas extrañas (2024).* DOMENICO SCARLATTI: Harpsichord Sonata in B minor, K. 87 (L. 33). JUAN VÁSQUEZ/JOSÉ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ: De los álamos vengo, madre (From the Poplars I come, Mother. arr. for clarinet and violoncello, 2024). * TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA /JOSÉ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ: Tantum ergo (Arr. for flute quintet, oboe, clarinet, violin and violoncello, 2024). * MANUEL DE FALLA: Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and violoncello (1923-26) * Premiere. Commissioned by the Granada Festival. Benjamin Alard (harpsichord and direction), Israel Galván (dance), Miguel Colom (violin), Fernando Arias (cello), Álvaro Octavio (flute), Luis Ángel Sánchez (Oboe), Vicente Alberola (clarinet) Keys to Falla [Festival de Granada] - This tribute to one of the greatest compositions from Falla’s neoclassical period, his Concerto for Harpsichord and Five Instruments, is designed around the participation of the Sevillian dancer and choreographer Israel Galván, the French harpsichordist and organist Benjamin Alard –who acts as artistic director of the project– and the Cádiz-born composer José María Sánchez-Verdú. Commissioned by the Festival, Sánchez-Verdú has created a piece with the same instrumentation, which he has titled Las ínsulas extrañas (The Strange Tenements), and as an acknowledgment of the early Spanish music sources used by Falla for his work, he has made separate arrangements to pieces by Juan Vásquez and Tomás Luis de Victoria. The music by two of the greatest keyboard masters of all time, Scarlatti and Bach, will complete the suggested choreography, along with five renowned soloists. Benjamin Alard's new albums 2024: M. FALLA (Concerto for harpsichord): https://lnk.to/StravinskyFallaHerasCasado J.S. BACH (Brandenburg Concerto No. 5): International release date May 3rd, 2024