🗓 Date: Monday, July 14

⏰ Time: 7:30 PM

Icíar Serrano Concert

The concert is based on the works "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev and "Scriabin's Preludes" by Alexander Scriabin.

PROGRAM:

1) Peter and the Wolf Op.67 - Piano Suite, by S. Prokofiev

"Peter and the Wolf" is a symphonic work by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), which we will listen to in a version for solo piano. Written in 1936, the composer adapted the music to the text, including a narrator in addition to the orchestra.

Each of the pieces we will hear belongs to the genre of program music, which aims to evoke extra-musical ideas or images in the listener's mind, musically representing scenes, feelings, and characters.

Written with bold harmony, the pieces are full of descriptive details that imbue the scores with grace and charm, delighting the audience's ears, like a nod to our musical perception.

We will listen to several pieces in the form of a piano suite, which is a symphonic version for a single musical instrument.

Each piece represents a character or situation, easily recognizable.

2) Scriabin's Preludes, Op. 11

The 24 Preludes, Op. 11, by Aleksandr Scriabin (1872-1915) are a set of short, compact pieces composed during his "first period" (1888-1900), during which the composer's music was strongly influenced by the work of Frédéric Chopin.

This was one of his earliest works, published in 1897 in Leipzig, Germany, along with his 12 Études, Op. 8 (1894-95).

This work is considered one of the most impressive of Scriabin's early compositions, and demonstrates both his post-Romantic style and his shift toward atonality, without forgetting his constant search for a new musical language.

These preludes were written in different places over the course of those eight years, such as Moscow, kyiv, Dresden, Heidelberg, Witznau, Amsterdam and Paris, and in all of them the composer wanted to see a relationship between colours and tonalities, or synesthesia.