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The Secret Garden
53 Mount Ephraim Lane
Streatham
London
SW161JE
England
Programme
Zoltán Kodály – Cello Sonata, Op.4
Francisco Tárrega – Capricho árabe
Francisco Tárrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Three Preludes (1940)
Napoléon Coste – Fantasie Dramatique 'Le Depart', Op.31
Catharina Pratten – Forgotten
Fernando Sor – Minuet in A major, Op.11 no. 6
Ernest Shand – Legende
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango: Café 1930
Manuel de Falla – La vida breve
Manuel de Falla – Nana for Cello and Guitar
Performers
Alexandra Whittingham – guitar
Chris Grist – Cello
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Programme Note
Classical guitarist Alexandra Whittingham takes to the stage with Artistic Director Chris Grist on the cello.
About this event
Alexandra Whittingham is joined by Chris Grist for a spectacular evening of music.
Join Alexandra Whittingham, rising star of classical guitar, and Chris Grist, our Artistic Director, for an evening of spectacular musical dialogues between the romantic cello and the passionate guitar. A programme full of rhythms, melodies and sounds inspired by Spain, Andalusia, Argentina, and by dance, traditions and memories. Piazzolla’s Café 1930 contains one of his most soulful melodies and it represents a period when, in the words of the composer himself, ‘people stopped dancing it as they did in 1900, preferring instead simply to listen to it. It became more musical, and more romantic.’
De Falla’s ‘Nana’, another gem of this program, is actually a lullaby, which De Falla heard ‘from his mother’s lips before he was old enough to think’, and contains all the musical memory of Andalusian songs. Inspired by Andalusia is also Tarrega’s Capricho Arabe, which recalls the romance of nightfall and the beauty of the land in an evocative, profound, and playfully intimate way.
Join us on this evening to be transported by the notes of guitar and cello to romantic starlit Andalusian nights.
