CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ AND BEETHOVEN\’S THIRD

Repertoire

• Parra » Absència
• Rodrigo » Concierto de Aranjuez
• Beethoven » Symphony no. 3 “Eroica”

Artists

Lorenzo Viotti, conductor
Juan Manuel Cañizares, guitar

Program

With his Third Symphony, Beethoven left everyone speechless; no one had ever heard a work like it. Could symphonic music really say so many things? Beethoven showed that it could. The “Eroica” marked a turning point in the history of music, from which there would be no turning back.His deafness began to affect him seriously. He closed himself off and the result was the most impressive work ever written up until that time. It was an utterly defiant statement of “I’m not finished, quite the contrary!” And although initially some critics called it “ponderous and never ending”, time has proved its stature and today it is considered one of the most important symphonic works in history. Lorenzo Viotti, winner of the Conductors’ Competition in Cadaqués, completes the programme with the work by Hèctor Parra that won him the award, and the most popular guitar concerto in the international repertoire: the Concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquín Rodrigo from Sagunto.

You can listen to this concert:
On Catalunya Música:
14th February at 11 am (life broadcasting)
On Radio Clásica (RNE):
21st February at 8 pm
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