EIGHT CENTURIES OF NAVARRE MUSIC
Antonio Baciero

Friday
21 Apr / 19:30 h
70 min
16 y 18€
MUN Theater

Antonio Baciero presents a recital in which the multiple didactic aspects of his friend and teacher Fernando Remacha are represented. A journey through his favorite instrument, the piano..
 

The program of this concert opens with some Trovas del Rey Teobaldo de Navarra (1201 - 1253), the result of meetings between Baciero and Remacha in the Semana de Estudios Medievales in Estella, whose musical aspect was directed by Remacha from Tudela since its beginnings. Next are works from the musicological work of Antonio Baciero with Joseph Ximénez (1600 - 1672), also from Tudela, Joaquín Asiain (1758 - 1828) and Sebastián de Albero (1722 - 1756); all of them from the New Spanish Library of keyboard music initiated by Baciero in 1979 in the Spanish Musical Union (Madrid) with the impulse and criterion of Remacha. The publication included the three Sonatas preserved in a manuscript from El Escorial by Julián Prieto (1765 - 1844), Chapel Master of the Cathedral of Pamplona for more than 40 years and Eslava's teacher. The recital will end with one of the Maestro's most emblematic works from his time in Tudela: the Sonatina of 1948.

Baciero emphasizes that Remacha not only transmitted to the young people of that time the concerns and spirit of renewal of the Generation of '27 and its intellectual core of the Madrid Group, but also the love for knowledge and the study and dissemination of musical art.
 

PROGRAM

Four trovas...................................................... Theobald I of Navarre (1201-1253) 

                   Song to the Virgin. Serventés           

                    Pastorela (I, II)

Dos "Pangue lingua" a tres............................................José Ximenez (1601 -1667)

Three pieces..............................................Bernardo de Zala y Galdeano (1685-1740)

                   Walks on the Do. Fainting

                   King's Minuet

Sonata in D major...........................Sebastián de Albero y Añanos (1722 - 1756)

                   Two Recercatas: G major. A minor

                   Recercata, Sonata and Fugue in D

Rest 12 minutes

Sonata in C major................................................ José Ferrer Beltrán (1756 - 1815)

Allegro in B flat Major.................................Joaquín Asiain Bardají (1758-1828)

Three 2nd Tone Verses..........................................................Julián Prieto (1765 - 1844)

Sonata in C Major..............................................................Julián Prieto (1765 - 1844)

                   Allegro giusto. Andante con espressione. Rondo

Mazurka in G Major...............................................Juan Mª Guelbenzu (1819-1886)

Sonatina (1948)............................................................. Fernando Remacha (1898-184)

                    Allegro ma non troppo. Adagio

ANTONIO BACIERO

Antonio Baciero (Aranda de Duero, 1936) is an internationally renowned Spanish pianist and organist. After studying piano at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, he perfected his technique in Siena with Guido Agosti and in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus and Alfred Brendel.

His concert activity has not prevented him from intensifying his knowledge of Spanish baroque music and original instruments. He has performed frequently in cycles of historical music, courses, etc. His meetings with Fernando Remacha, Esteban Sánchez, Badura-Skoda, Santiago Kastner and Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli were important.

He is Honorary President of the Hispanic Society of Baroque Music, Castilla y León Prize for the Arts, member of the Bach-Riemenschneider Institute (Ohio, USA), the Royal Academy of History (Madrid), the San Dámaso Academy of Art and History (Madrid), the Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce (Segovia) and the Fernán González Institution (Burgos). 

As an expert in Bach, Mozart and the Viennese Romantics, he has given numerous commemorative concerts and piano performance courses all over the world. His discography can be found on prestigious record labels.