LA TEMPESTAD AT THE CICLO SABATINI OF THE AYUNTAMIENTO DE MADRID

La Tempestad celebrates the Año Sabatini with a weekend of concerts at the Real Basílica de San Francisco el Grande.

'TORMÉNTASE EL ALMA' DOMENICO SCARLATTI E ITALIA EN LA CÁMARA DE LOS BORBONES

In this concert, the ensemble La Tempestad rescues one of the least explored areas of Scarlatti's output –his cantatas– along with virtually unknown arias by Domenico Porretti and Giacomo Facco. The programme is completed by the composer Juan Oliver Astorga, from Murcia, a cosmopolitan musician still little studied, who worked at several European courts before returning to Spain to join the Real Cámara de Carlos III as a violinist.

1 October, 18:00 and 19:45 3 October, 17:00 and 18:30

Real Basílica de San Francisco el Grande (Plaza de San Francisco, s/n)

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29/09/2021 | Natalia Erice

La Tempestad arrives in Madrid with the soprano Eugenia Boix to join the Año Sabatini celebrations, organised by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid, with a double bill of concerts on 1 and 3 October at the Real Basílica de San Francisco El Grande. The programme they are presenting, Torméntase el alma, paints a picture of the rich musical panorama that arose in the first half of the 18th century with the arrival of Scarlatti and other Italian musicians at the Bourbon court, thirty years before Francesco Sabatini settled in Madrid in the service of the monarchs. Domenico Scarlatti headed a remarkable series of Italian artists and composers who took the initiative to travel from their native land to the peninsula, drawn by the cultural appeal of the Spanish court. Other Italian musicians in the palace circle –besides the best known, such as Scarlatti himself and Luigi Boccherini– were Domenico Porretti (principal chamber cellist during the reigns of Felipe V, Fernando VI and Carlos III) and Giacomo Facco (principal violinist and composer of the Capilla Real of Felipe V). Moreover, the work that Sabatini carried out for the royal family, much of it extending and remodelling existing buildings, was a practice that also flourished in the musical sphere in the 18th century. Imagining how the rhythmic emphasis of Scarlatti's sonatas sounds on other instruments, beyond the harpsichord or other keyboards, can be a temptation hard to resist, and the ensemble La Tempestad gives in to it through the transcriptions of its director, the harpsichordist Silvia Márquez. Proof of this was the recording of their successful album (CD) Scarlatti: Venezia 1742, which earned favourable reviews and awards (Melómano de Oro, 4 Diapason, among others). In addition, this concert will rescue one of the least explored areas of Scarlatti's output –his cantatas– along with virtually unknown arias by Porretti and Facco. The programme will be completed by the composer from Murcia Juan Oliver Astorga, a cosmopolitan musician still little studied, who worked at several European courts before returning to Spain to join the Real Cámara de Carlos III as a violinist.

LA TEMPESTAD Eugenia Boix – Soprano Guillermo Peñalver – Traverso Sophie Wedell – Baroque violin Lorea Aranzasti – Baroque violin Antonio Clares – Baroque viola Guillermo Turina – Baroque cello Jorge Muñoz – Baroque double bass Silvia Márquez Chulilla – Harpsichord and artistic direction MORE INFORMATION: https://sabatini2021.com/programacion/tormentase-el-alma/

LINK TO THE ALBUM SCARLATTI: VENEZIA 1742:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5eNQXNqM7weNX6ZWn4cVbG?si=8df3dc42fa4c4e08Scarlatti sonata that opens the programme Torméntase el alma:

Sonata en Sol m, K. 88. I. Grave

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LINKS

More information and tickets: https://sabatini2021.com/programacion/tormentase-el-alma/