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Benjamin Alard
CHAMBER MUSIC/CHOREGRAPHY - Scarlatti, Bach, Sanchez-Verdu, Falla (with Israel Galván, dance) - Patio de los inocentes del Hospital Real (Festival de Granada)
Hospital Real, Granada
Av. del Hospicio
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CHAMBER MUSIC 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
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Benjamin Alard Biography
BENJAMIN ALARD . Harpsichord, Organ, Clavicord
Benjamin Alard’s principal passion has always been the music of J.S. Bach and it was for his interpretation of this great composer that he was awarded first prize in the 2004 International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges.
While still quite young he began studying music in his hometown in Dieppe, France. He was soon drawn to the organ and entered the Conservatory of Rouen where he studied with Louis Thiry and François Ménissier.
He was first introduced to the harpsichord by Elizabeth Joyé, with whom he studied in Paris before going on, in 2003, to the Schola Cantorum in Basel to work with Jörg-Andreas Bôtticher, Jean-Claude Zehnder and Andrea Marcon.
Since 2005 he has been organist of the Bernard-Aubertin organ in the church of Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile in Paris where each season he gives concerts about the music of Bach.
Today Benjamin Alard divides his time between performing recitals and chamber music on both the harpsichord and organ. He often performs repertoire for two harpsichords with Elisabeth Joyé, in duo with the violinist Francois Fernandez or in trio). He is regularly invited to perform as soloist in music series in Europe, Japan and North America.
Benjamin Alard has recorded for the label Hortus and has made several recordings of works by J. S. Bach for Alpha (Sonatas in trio, Clavier Übung I and II). His recordings have consistently received high praise from the press and have been awarded multiple prizes.
He will now devote himself to the complete works for harpsichord and organ solo of Johann Sebastian Bach for harmonia mundi. Two boxes, on 17, are already available. The third box will be released in March 2020.
During the season 2019-2020, Benjamin Alard will be playing in Saint-Petersburg, in Barcelona and Madrid, in Ireland, among others. And he will continue the recording of the Bach cycle for keyboards solo at harmonia mundi.
Read MoreBenjamin Alard’s principal passion has always been the music of J.S. Bach and it was for his interpretation of this great composer that he was awarded first prize in the 2004 International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges.
While still quite young he began studying music in his hometown in Dieppe, France. He was soon drawn to the organ and entered the Conservatory of Rouen where he studied with Louis Thiry and François Ménissier.
He was first introduced to the harpsichord by Elizabeth Joyé, with whom he studied in Paris before going on, in 2003, to the Schola Cantorum in Basel to work with Jörg-Andreas Bôtticher, Jean-Claude Zehnder and Andrea Marcon.
Since 2005 he has been organist of the Bernard-Aubertin organ in the church of Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile in Paris where each season he gives concerts about the music of Bach.
Today Benjamin Alard divides his time between performing recitals and chamber music on both the harpsichord and organ. He often performs repertoire for two harpsichords with Elisabeth Joyé, in duo with the violinist Francois Fernandez or in trio). He is regularly invited to perform as soloist in music series in Europe, Japan and North America.
Benjamin Alard has recorded for the label Hortus and has made several recordings of works by J. S. Bach for Alpha (Sonatas in trio, Clavier Übung I and II). His recordings have consistently received high praise from the press and have been awarded multiple prizes.
He will now devote himself to the complete works for harpsichord and organ solo of Johann Sebastian Bach for harmonia mundi. Two boxes, on 17, are already available. The third box will be released in March 2020.
During the season 2019-2020, Benjamin Alard will be playing in Saint-Petersburg, in Barcelona and Madrid, in Ireland, among others. And he will continue the recording of the Bach cycle for keyboards solo at harmonia mundi.
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