Repertoire
Claude Debussy: La plus que lente, L 121 (1910)
Enric Granados: Sonata for Violin and Piano (c. 1908)
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1942-1943)
Joan Manén: Caprice No. 3 “Català”, Op. A-33 (1899)
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata, Op. Post. (1897)
Salvador Brotons: Et in terra pax, Op. 97 (2004)
Joaquín Turina: Sonata No. 2, Op. 82 “Sonata española” (1934)
Pablo de Sarasate: Aires bohemios, Op. 20 (1878)
Artists
Francisco Fullana, violin
Alba Ventura, piano
ProgramME
France has been a meeting point and inspiration for many of Spain’s best composers over the last two hundred years. This fruitful musical connection reached its peak in the restless Paris of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was there that Granados and Turina studied and shaped their compositional languages, and were influenced by musicians of the calibre of Debussy and Ravel, whose little-known early Violin Sonata No. 1 (“Sonate postume”) we will hear. The Spain-France cross-fertilisation can also be seen in Poulenc’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, dedicated to Lorca. In this dialogue between French and Spanish music, violinist Francisco Fullana and pianist Alba Ventura also perform music by two of the greatest Spanish violin virtuosos, who gave concerts all over Europe: Manén and Sarasate. A spiritual note is struck by Et in terra pax for solo violin by the Catalan composer Salvador Brotons (1959), a plea for peace in a world at war.
