JOAN CERVERÓ

Born in Madrid in 1952, Jorge Fernández Guerra is one of the most outstanding Spanish composers of his generation. In addition to his work as a composer, which has earned him the 2007 National Music Prize from the Ministry of Culture, he has excelled as a music manager and as an essayist on musical themes, with important responsibilities in the press and in prominent institutions of musical life.

As a composer, his work is framed in the context of the aesthetic paradigm shift problems that took shape from the 1980s. Later, during his long residence in Paris, in the 1990s, he expanded his vision of the transformations that creative music needed to undertake at the turn of the century, including a lucid revision of the avant-garde heritage and a new validation strategy social composition of music of European origin.

UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | V | #2

Joan Cerveró, Director & Conductor

CONCERT & LECTURE | QUE SAIS-JE…?

CONTEMPORARY OPERA | Jorge Fernández Guerra, Lecturer

Viernes 27 | Enero 2012 | 20:00 H | Institut Français de Valencia |

Program

Jorge Fernández Guerra Los niños han gritado (2010)
Text: Vicente Aleixandre
for soprano, violin, cello and piano

György Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre (1974/78)
from the opera Le Grand Macabre
or trumpet and piano (Arr. Elgar Howarth)

Kurt Weill Alabama Song (1930)
from the opera Aufstieg und fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Text: Bertolt Brecht
for soprano, trumpet, violin, cello and piano

Youkali (1935)
from the play Marie Galante
Text: Roger Fernay
for soprano and piano

Morität von Mackie Messer (1928)
from the opera Die Dreigroschenoper
Text: Bertolt Brecht
for soprano, trumpet, violin, cello and piano


Arantxa Martínez, Soprano
Mª Carmen Antequera, Violin
Mayte García-Atienza, Cello
Vicente Campos, Trumpet
Carlos Apellániz, Piano
Joan Ceveró, Conductor