Ólafsson, Perianes, Gimeno & Masaaki Suzuki perform at Festival de Granada

23/6/2023

Granada has recently been selected as one of the 29 best summer Festivals by BBC Music Magazine

Víkingur Ólafsson opens the ‘great interpreters’ cycle on 23 June on the magic cloister of the Hospital Real performing his program ‘Mozart and Contemporaries’ mixing works of Haydn and Mozart with some of their contemporary composers less known as Baldassare Galuppi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Domenico Cimarosa.

Spanish pianist Javier Perianes offers a recital on 3 July at the Palace of Charles V inside the Alhambra presenting a Spanish-inspired programme with Manuel de Falla, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados’ music. The concert is a homage to the 100^th birthday of the great pianist Alicia de Larrocha.

Gustavo Gimeno conducts two programs with Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. On 6 July, he offers a concert with Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier suite, La Valse from Ravel, a contemporary piece by Francisco Coll, and he is joined by Yuja Wang for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. On 7 July, the concert opens with Angelus Novus (Mahleriana 1) from Tomás Marco, Resident Composer of the Festival, followed by Mahler’s Symphony No.6 The Tragic.