Gustavo Pláate and Mauricio Guzman address Grupalli, Fauré, Schumann, Brahms and Bártok.
Today, at 8 p.m., a new Chamber Series concert will take place in the Auditorium of the Virla Cultural Center Juan Carlos Grupalliin charge of Gustavo Plaate on cello and Mauricio Guzman on piano.
In tribute to the mentor of the cycle, who recently passed away, the concert will open with his Nocturne in G major.
Two works will follow Gabriel Faure, Après un rêve and the Sicilian op. 78, and then the Adagio and Allegro op. 70 of Robert Schuman. “This is an emblematic work, of great beauty, with enormous difficulties for the interpreters; Maybe that’s why it’s not heard often. The last time it was done in Tucumán was in 1974, when they performed it at the San Martín el cellista Carlos Conrad next to Alicia Arce on piano,” says Guzman.
Ceramics, origami, kimonos and a samurai sword, at the Virla Cultural Center
“The second part of the concert offers one of the most beautiful works of chamber music of Johannes Brahms, the Sonata in E minor op. 38, favorite in the genre. Its three movements respond to the composer’s strong romanticism, the third being a tribute by Brahms to Juan Sebastian Bach in a fugue style that reflects the composer’s inspiration in two Contrapunctus from Bach’s monumental Art of the Fugue. Although this Sonata is better known than Schumann’s work, it is not often performed either due to the great technical and interpretation demands,” he adds.
The Six Romanian Popular Dances, by Béla Bártok, in a version of Luigi Silvathey will close the concert.
