ARTIST: Mar Esteve i Rodrigo – mezzo-soprano;
Josep Buforn – piano

WORKS BY: Enric Granados, Eduard Toldrà,
Frederic Mompou, Manuel de Falla and Joaquín Turina,

A dialogue between voice and piano through 20th-century Catalan and Spanish poetry to the present day. A journey through voice, word and piano in Catalan and Spanish song, from the first third of the 20th century to contemporary vocal creation. This recital focuses on the intimate relationship between voice, text and piano, in which the piano takes on a fully dialoguing and structural role, creating sound spaces and landscapes that constantly interact with the voice and poetic text.

The programme establishes a dialogue between composers of Modernism and Noucentisme, such as Enric Granados, Eduard Toldrà, Frederic Mompou, Manuel de Falla and Joaquín Turina, and contemporary creators such as Albert García Demestres, showing the continuity and relevance of the genre. The poetic texts evoke dreamlike landscapes, natural spaces and contemplative atmospheres, and include poems by leading poets such as Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Josep Carner and Federico García Lorca. The linguistic proximity makes the song an immediate and accessible experience, without losing artistic rigour or demands.

Programme:

Catalan composers:

Eduard Toldrà – La rosa als llavis / Maig
/ Cançó incerta

Frederic Mompou – Combat del somni

Xavier Montsalvatge – Canciones para
niños / Cinco canciones negras

Enric Morera – Cançons de carrer

Enric Granados – Tonadillas

Albert García Demestres – Selected
works

Miquel Ortega – Canción del Jinete

Albert Guinovart – Arrangements of
Catalan traditional songs

Spanish composers:

Manuel de Falla – Siete canciones
populares españolas

Joaquín Turina – Poema en forma de
canciones, Op.19

Julián Bautista – 3 Ciudades

Federico García Lorca – Zorongo, La
Tarara

Antón García Abril – Tres canciones
Españolas sobre textos de Federico
García Lorca