La música desconfinada de Francesco Tristano

By Maria Sánchez, 08 October 2020

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“cada una de las piezas de su programa fueron un acto de reconciliación y agradecimiento”

Reviewed at Palau de la Música, Barcelona on 6 October 2020

Bach, English Suite no. 6 in D minor, BWV811

Bull, Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: Lord Lumley's Pavan and Galliard (arr. Francesco Tristano)

Tristano, Chaconne (Ground Bass)

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Francesco Tristano, Piano

Full throttle: finger crunching pianism at the QEH

Mark Pullinger, 11th June

The Rite of Spring provides the centrepiece of Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano's "Scandale" programme, an often fatiguing programme, but thrillingly performed.

****1

Brandt Bauer Frick and Aufgang

Leopold Tobisch, 27th January

Part of a festival exploring technological innovations moving “beyond” the piano, Aufgang and Brandt Brauer Frick presented an evening of music in Paris that didn’t reinvent the instrument in quite the expected way.

***11

Bach, Cage, Tristano: Similarities and Differences at Kings Place

Paul Kilbey, 28th May

Similarities between Johann Sebastian Bach and John Cage don't exactly leap out at you. Both have an interest in numbers, it's true: Bach's music is obsessively, perhaps mathematically patterned, and Cage proportioned much of his music according to strict ratios and numerical schemes. But even this similarity is very much an abstract one: can you hear it in the pieces? No, not really.

**111

Feu et grâce : le Philharmonique de Strasbourg, de Bizet à Ravel

Jean Landras, 14th November

De Bizet à Ravel en passant par Gershwin, l'orchestre strasbourgeois a encore une fois mis en évidence ses qualités sous la direction de Marko Letonja, malgré un Francesco Tristano un peu léger.

***11

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

Patriotic angst with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair

Nick Butters, 24th April

Patriotic Sibelius and early Mendelssohn are served up at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

***11

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Maria Sánchez

Nacida en Barcelona, se formó musicalmente a una edad temprana y de manera autodidacta. Graduada en Historia del Arte (Universitat de Barcelona) y posteriormente formada en el máster Música como Arte Interdisciplinar (Universitat de Barcelona / ESMUC / Universitat Rovira i Virgili), se especializó en el estudio y creación de nuevos lenguajes escénicos y musicales. Ha llevado a cabo la creación de proyectos dramatúrgicos en torno a la reformulación del mito clásico en las artes escénicas contemporáneas, eje vertebral de sus estudios. En la actualidad, continúa proyectando nuevos discursos y planteamientos sobre la supervivencia del mito en lo social y lo artístico.

La música desconfinada de Francesco Tristano: Suites y Cuadros en el Palau de la Música