During their recital this Thursday, they will interpret compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Paderewski, and Szymanowski
The Auditorio de Tenerife has scheduled a performance by Rafal Blechacz and Bomsori for Thursday, November 26, in its Chamber Hall. This concert, featuring the Polish pianist and South Korean violinist, with tickets already sold out, will start at 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall. The programme will include works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Karol Szymanowski.
Both musicians are to offer a concert full of vitality and contrasts brought together in exquisite balance. In addition to the clarity of form, elegance and compositional maturity of Mozart’s Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296, the duo will interpret Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7, Op. 30, which was written at the opening of the 19th century and showcases the composer’s astounding maturity, great expressive depth and deeply moving passages. Significantly, just a few months later, Beethoven wrote what is known today as the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter to his brothers in which he describes his despair over his declining health and increasing deafness.
Following the intermission, the programme will present a contrast with the Slavic lyricism, characteristically lengthy phrasing and overwhelming dramatic intensity of Paderewski’s Sonata in A Minor Op. 13, and especially with the richly impressionistic harmony of Szymanowski’s Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28 and its abundant Mediterranean influences: the Nocturne evokes the essence of Spanish music, with the violin marking an Andalusian rhythm strummed on its four strings and the Tarantella advancing with unstoppable energy, fully capturing the spirit of the Neapolitan style.
The next highlight of the Chamber Cycle is El Afecto Ilustrado, offering two distinct concerts on 16 and 18 December, performing an integral of string quintets with two violas composed by the Spanish composer José Palomino de la Quintana (1753–1810). A subscription offering a 25% discount is available for those wishing to attend both concerts.