2019-11-18 – 13:55 h

 

UPDATE (11/19/2019): Finally, Alberto Iglesias will not be able to attend the events planned within the festival (read more).

 

The Festival de Música Española de Cádiz (Spanish Music Festival of Cádiz), which celebrates its XVII edition from November 8 to 24, 2019, will close the festival on Sunday 24th with a conference with the Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias, followed by a concert focused on his music entitled ‘Volver. The music of Alberto Iglesias for the movies of Pedro Almodóvar’.

 

The conference will be at 19h at the Gran Teatro Falla in Cadiz (Spain), free entry until full capacity is reached, and will serve as a presentation to the concert that will come later at 20h in the same place, performed by the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada conducted by Carlos Mena and with the participation of the violinist Alexis Aguado.

 

Tickets for the concert, with prices 5-14 €, can be purchased at the following link:

https://bit.ly/35gezpo

 

The program will be as follows:

FIRST HALF

ZOLTAN KODÁLY (1882-1967)

Nyári este (Anochecer de verano-1906)

  • Andante assai

 

ALBERTO IGLESIAS (n. 1955)

Volver suite (2006)

  • I. Vecinas
  • II. Dicen que la han visto
  • III. Paco congelado
  • IV. Tema llorón
  • V. Dos en la furgoneta

 

SECOND HALF

RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Five variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939)

  • Introducción y tema: Adagio
  • Variante I [Adagio]
  • Variante II: Allegro moderato
  • Variante III: Allegretto
  • Variante IV: L´istesso tempo
  • Variante V: Adagio

 

ALBERTO IGLESIAS (n. 1955)

La piel que habito, suite para violín y orquesta (2011)

  • I. El Cigarral
  • II. La identidad inaccesible
  • III. Duelo final
  • IV. Una patada en los huevos

 

More information about the conference:

https://bit.ly/2Xn7ccK

 

More information about the concert:

https://bit.ly/2OppciC

 

Hand program:

https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/aaiicc/sites/default/files/aaiicc/d14_orquesta_ciudad_de_granada.pdf

 

Additional information about the festival:

https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/aaiicc/festival-musica-cadiz/