Martha Argerich in the Alhambra | Trailer
A meeting on the heights between Charles Dutoit and Martha Argerich, two greats of the music of the last half century, for a programme that tangentially connects with Manuel de Falla and the I Concurso de Cante Jondo, as Ravel was a good friend of the Cadiz native in Paris, and in principle was invited to the event (along with Stravinsky), but apparently the municipal coffers were not in the mood for too much joy and his visit could not materialise. The concert opens with a work that Ravel wrote as a double homage: to the French harpsichordists of the Baroque period and to his friends who died in the Great War. It is followed by the magical Concerto in G, a crucial work of the genre in the 20th century. For the second part, a work that was also programmed in the Alhambra concerts in 1922, the year of the Russians, as they called it, Tchaikovsky's very popular Fourth Symphony.
Martha Argerich, piano
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Programme
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le tombeau de Couperin
Concierto para piano en sol mayor
Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (1840-1893)
Sinfonía nº 4 en Fa menor, op. 36