The proposal by the Spanish Pablo Márquez and the Japanese Atsuko Takano includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Debussy.

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a four-hand organ concert with Pablo Márquez and Atsuko Takano this Sunday (27th) at noon. The Symphony Hall stages the proposal "The art of transcription", with works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy and Pablo Márquez himself.

The programme to be performed this Sunday is based on Pablo Márquez's original transcriptions of German and French orchestral repertoire. The concert begins with the Ouverture and Air from Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, followed by the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The second half of the programme centres on French works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the performance of Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel and Nuages, a part of Nocturnes, by Claude Debussy.

Lastly, the concert includes a Japanese Miniature composed by Pablo Márquez for the Iberian organ for four hands. It is based on the traditional Japanese song Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossoms, Cherry Blossoms). The composition features the musical forms most often used in the repertoire of Iberian Baroque music: variations, tientos (ricercars) characterised by dramatic dissonance, right- and left-hand solo lines and battaglia). The Japanese melody is modal and runs through the work as a common thread.

Pablo Márquez is an organist at Valencia Cathedral and teaches harpsichord at the Higher Conservatory of Castellón. Atsuko Takano is the Musical Director and titular organist of the San Nicolás Church of Valencia.

The organ of Auditorio de Tenerife was built in the 20th century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team. It is considered a unique instrument not only for its design but also for its sound and musical ranges. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall. The organist controls them from onstage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

The tickets for the concert can be purchased at a single price of €15 and 5 euros for the audience under 30 years of age on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.