Tomorrow Tuesday at 12 o’clock, the Instituto Rumano de Cultura of Madrid presents at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (C. de Alcalá, 13) the concert Musical Portraits: from Clara Schumann to Dinu Lipatti, with pianist Luiza Borac (pictured). Free entry until capacity is reached. Please confirm: icrmadrid@icr.ro / 917 589 566.
The concert is part of the multi-year programming of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid, Romania in music, and is dedicated to the celebration of the Mărțișor -the most known symbol of spring, included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO- and the International Women’s Day, as well as a tribute to the Romanian composer and pianist Dinu Lipatti, commemorating seventy-five years since her death.
The pianist Luiza Borac, “the most poetic artist”, is recognized on the great stages of the world as “a virtuoso of a fantastic brightness”. 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).
This program bridges different eras and styles, from romantic sensibility to 20th century modernity, exploring the piano as a vehicle of expression and memory. 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Dinu Lipatti, a Romanian pianist and composer whose music continues to resonate with unparalleled purity and sensitivity.
Following the concert program and inspired by the mythical figure of Carmen, La Eterna Carmen, op. 48 Nr.1 evokes the sounds and rhythms of Andalusian folklore, with a passionate lyricism and a refined use of the characteristic piano color of Turina.
The neoclassical clarity and virtuosity of Dinu Lipatti are reflected in Pequeña suite, presented for the first time in Spain, and in the Sonatina for left hand, while his transcriptions of Bach preserve intact the spirituality and purity of the original.
Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann, two essential figures of Romanticism, offer intimate lyricism and refined sensitivity in their Songs without words and Nocturnal, respectively. More information is available at this link.
