Exactly one hundred years after its premiere at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Manuel de Falla’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Five Instruments returns to the very hall where it was first performed. Benjamin Alard, well known to Palau audiences and one of today’s leading keyboard specialists, heads an exceptional ensemble featuring Miguel Colom, Fernando Arias, Álvaro Octavio, Ángel Luis Sánchez and Pablo Barragán. A unique opportunity to rediscover a landmark of twentieth-century Spanish music on the very stage where it was first heard.
The concert also marks the 150th anniversary of Manuel de Falla’s birth and creates a dialogue between past and present that extends to the contemporary music of José María Sánchez-Verdú. At its heart is a Falla who viewed tradition through radically modern eyes, transforming the harpsichord, an instrument associated with early music, into the protagonist of a new musical language.
