The Romania in music programme, organized by the Instituto Cultural Rumano of Madrid in collaboration with the Real Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando de Madrid under the auspices of the Embassy of Romania, continues in 2024 with two concerts offered by the violinist Valentin Șerbany (pictured) and the pianist Mihai Diaconescu in Madrid and Barcelona.
The concerts will take place tomorrow Tuesday at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando (Alcalá, 13), at 12 o’clock, and the following day, November 13, in Barcelona, at 7 pm at the Casa de Convalecència (Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171). Casa Convalescència is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an extraordinary modernist building within the hospital complex of Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
The concert in Barcelona will take place within the framework of the National Day of Romania and is organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Romania in Barcelona. The recital in Madrid, with free admission until full capacity aims to promote the International Music Festival and Competition “George Enescu”.
These events invite you to a musical journey through folk and cultural landscapes, from the legendary mountains of Romania to the Mediterranean hustle and bustle of the streets of Spain, reflecting the richness and diversity of popular music and its influence on the great composers of the 20th century.
In the concert you can hear pieces such as Sonata n.3 in A minor, “dans le caractère populaire roumain”, op. 25, and «Lăutarul» from the “Suite of Impressions of Childhood” op. 28, by George Enescu (1881-1955); the Spanish Popular Suite, by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946); Romanian folk dances, by Béla Bartók (1881-1945); Albéniz style, by Rodión Shchédrin (1932-); Toccata – Dobruja dance, by Paul Constantinescu (1909-1963), and Gypsy Aires op.20 by Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908).
