The concert Musical Portraits: de Clara Schumann a Dinu Lipatti, with Luiza Borac, will take place on Wednesday, May 21, at 12 o’clock, at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (calle de Alcalá, 13), in the framework of the multiannual programming of the Instituto Cultural Rumano of Madrid, Romania in music, carried out in collaboration with the Royal Academy.
The pianist Luiza Borac, «the most poetic artist», is recognized on the great stages of the world as «a virtuoso of fantastic brilliance». She was the first pianist from Romania to perform in a concert at the famous Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles and also the first to perform and record, in world premiere, works by Robert Schumann (Ahnung/Intuition), George Enescu (Concerto for piano and Fantasia), Dinu Lipatti (the integral of his works for piano), Marcel Mihalovici, György Kurtág and Constantin Silvestri (the integral of his works for piano).
Also known as a great promoter of Romanian composers, Luiza Borac has led and conducted three world premiere concert tours, with approximately 50 shows dedicated to the pianists Dinu Lipatti (on the occasion of the centenary of his birth), Alice Herz-Sommer (2016) and Clara Schumann (in the bicentenary of her birth), all internationally acclaimed.
The concert will be opened by the renowned musicologist and music critic José Luis García del Busto, member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and corresponding member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes of Granada, Seville, Barcelona and Valencia.
The concert program is composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) with his Aria: Sheep can graze safely, BWV 208 (Arr. Dinu Lipatti); Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) with his Sonatina for left hand and Little suite, Preludio; George Enescu (1881-1955) with Carillon nocturne; Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn (1805-1847) and his Songs without words, Op.8: 3, 4; Joaquin Turina (1882-1849) with Memories of ancient Spain, Op. 48: 1. The eternal Carmen; Clara Schumann (1819-1896) and her Nocturne Op.6, and Modest Músorgski (1839-1881) with Paintings from an exhibition. Please confirm your attendance by e-mail at icrmadrid@icr.ro or by telephone at 917 589 566.