Internationally celebrated Spanish pianist Javier Perianes returns to UKARIA with a personal and evocative program of Italian and Spanish music composed over two centuries. The influence of Spanish folk styles and particularly the guitar can be heard in Domenico Scarlatti’s delicately virtuosic eighteenth-century keyboard sonatas – this Neapolitan harpsichordist and composer spent the latter twenty-five years of his life living in Madrid under royal patronage. In this program, Perianes puts Scarlatti’s response to Spanish musical culture in dialogue with two Spanish-born High Romantic, Impressionist voices.

In the first half, three movements from Isaac Albéniz’s stirring Iberia suite are juxtaposed with Scarlatti sonatas of widely varying character, while the second half luxuriates in Enrique Granados’ richly characterful cycle, Goyescas. There can be no better interpreter of such a program than Javier Perianes, a harmonia mundi exclusive recording artist, whose recent appearances have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the London, LA and New York Philharmonics.

PROGRAM

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in F minor, K. 185 (3')

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
Evocación from Iberia (6')

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in F minor, K. 462 (6')
Sonata in D minor, K. 141 (3')
Sonata in B flat minor, K. 128 (6')

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
El Puerto from Iberia (4')

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in D, K. 491 (4')

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
El Albaicín from Iberia (7')

INTERVAL

Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
Goyescas, Op. 11 (50')

I. Los requiebros (The Compliments)
II. Coloquio en la reja (Conversation at the Window)
III. El fandango de candil (Fandango by Candlelight)
IV. Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale)
V. El Amor y la muerte (Balada) (Ballad of Love and Death)
VI. Epilogo: Serenata del espectro (Epilogue: Serenade of the Spectre)