Programme:
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Astor Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
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Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite
Maurice Ravel: Boléro

Astor Piazzolla’s tango, known as nuevo tango, was at first met with resistance due to its chromaticism, jazz elements and extended instrumentation. Like tango itself, Piazzolla first won recognition and respect outside Argentina, but by the 1980s
he was becoming more widely accepted in his homeland, where he was seen as the saviour of tango, and today his work is performed by classical musicians. The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires   is a mature work, composed in 1970. The suite will be performed by the ADDA Simfònica Alicante (ADDA Alicante Symphony Orchestra), which has established itself as a key part of the music scene in Valencia region. The orchestra will be conducted by Josep Vicent, famed as a pioneer in the exploration of new formats of interpretation. He has collaborated with ADDA Simfònica Alicante on many successful stage productions and world premieres of works in a wide range of styles. Among others, he collaborates with the renowned Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus, with whom he presented the show Pastoral for the Planet  at last year’s festival. The soloist will be Fabio Furia, one of the leading bandoneonists, who has opened a bandoneon academy in Italy and regularly gives concerts and masterclasses, and will also be featured in this year’s Ljubljana Festival Masterclasses 2024. A dance piece by the contemporary Mexican composer Arturo Márquez will be performed as an introduction to Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas,  while the Andalusian-inspired suite El sombrero de tres picos  by Manuel de Falla and Boléro  by Maurice Ravel will follow after the intermission.

• Josep Vicent has worked with numerous leading orchestras, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orquesta Nacional de España (National Orchestra of Spain), the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• ADDA Simfònica Alicante has performed with acclaimed conductors and soloists including Valery Gergiev, Maria João Pires, Paquito D’Rivera, Ramón Vargas, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, Joaquín Riquelme García, Stefanie Irányi and Juan Pérez Floristán
• under Vicent’s leadership the orchestra regularly premieres works by contemporary composers (Nicola Campogrande, Óscar Navarro, Jesse Passenier, Michael Nyman, Vicent Egea, Ximo Cano, David Mora, Per Egland, Jesús Mula)
• Fabio Furia’s first accordion teacher was Eliana Zajec, a Slovene; he later trained with another Slovene, Corrado Rojac, who is not only an accordionist but a leading contemporary Slovene composer