At the Liceu's Foyer
Concert by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The recital explores the relationship between abstract sculpture and music, where sculpture is presented as a kind of visual music. The program is inspired by the music of Bach and other composers, and it explores the connection between stone, gravity, weight, and structure, creating a musical landscape between tradition and modernity.
Mahan Esfahani is an Iranian-born harpsichordist who has focused his artistic career on the revival of the harpsichord as a central concert instrument. In this direction, creative programming and the commissioning of works have been praised by critics and audiences in Europe, Asia, and North America.
He was born in Tehran in 1984, trained in the United States, and began his professional career in the United Kingdom in 2009. In 2011, he gave the first harpsichord recital in the history of the BBC Proms, and since then, he has performed as a soloist in concerts around the world and recorded four albums, successfully positioning the harpsichord as a concert instrument in both classical and contemporary repertoires. In 2015, he won the BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award, among a long list of accolades.
His work as a harpsichordist has taken him to perform in some of the world’s most prestigious venues, including London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, Oji Hall in Tokyo, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall in NYC, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Berlin Konzerthaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Wiener Konzerthaus, among others.
Promoted by:
Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
08008 Barcelona
932142545
www.fundaciocatalunya-lapedrera.com
Programme
Louis Andriessen
Overture to Orpheus
Viktor Kalabis
Six Canonic Inventions
Bohuslav Martinu
Deux Pièces (op. posth.)
J.S. Bach
Partita VI in e, BWV 830
(Toccata - Allemanda - Corrente - Sarabande - Tempo di Gavotta - Air – Gigue)