This programme offers an exceptionally rich experience in terms of timbre and expressiveness, based on a dialogue between viola and marimba. Starting out from Bartók’s energetic rhythms and popular roots, the journey expands into contemporary languages from different cultures to explore colour, gesture and resonance. Pieces composed by Ignatowicz, Khayam and Tabakova reveal different facets of both instruments, brought out by virtuosity, intimacy and evocativeness. It culminates with Berio’s Naturale, in which tradition and modernity are fused through electronic music, in one of the most important works for this ensemble. A sound journey that connects the ancestral and the contemporary, to reveal new expressive dimensions in this unusual combination of instruments.
Isabel Villanueva, viola
Conrado Moya, marimba
Héctor Varela, electronics
Béla Bartók, 1881-1945
“Romanian dances” for viola and marimba, 8min
Anna Ignatowicz,1968
“Toccata” for marimba, 7min
Golfam Khayam, 1983
“Duochrome” for viola and marimba, 6min
Dobrinka Tabakova,1980
“Suite Pirin” for viola, 7min
Luciano Berio, 1925-2003
“Naturale” (on Sicilian melodies) for viola, percussion and pre-recorded electronics 20min
