The French musician will perform works by Bach, Liszt, Ravel and Saint-Saëns
The Auditorio de Tenerife, in collaboration with San Miguel Arcángel Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts, is offering one of the concerts of its organ cycle this Sunday (25 May) in the Symphony Hall. Thomas Ospital takes centre stage at this event, performing pieces by Bach, Liszt, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns.
The concert begins with Bach’s Passacaglia, before turning the spotlight on Liszt, whose works include a Consolation—originally composed for piano—and the profound musical reflection Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, directly inspired by the first chorus of Bach’s cantata bearing the same title.
The second part of the concert features two additional pieces. The first, by Ravel, conjures a magical, fairy-tale atmosphere in a transcription of his orchestral suite Le Tombeau de Couperin. The programme concludes with Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, a work that will reveal the organ of the Auditorio de Tenerife at its most colourful and expressive.
Born in the French Basque Country, Thomas Ospital has been the titular organist at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris since 2015. Between 2016 and 2019, Radio France appointed him the first organist in residence to play the new concert hall organ built by Grenzing. As a concert artist, he performs worldwide as a soloist or with symphonic orchestras. Since 2021, he has been teaching organ at the Paris National Conservatory of Music.
The Auditorio organ, built by Albert Blancafort and his team, is a 21st-century instrument unique not only for its design but also for its sound and musical range. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall. The organist controls them from on-stage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.
Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for the audience under 30 years on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium’s box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.