This concert takes place in the Chamber Hall next Thursday with works by Medtner, Brahms and Prokofiev.

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife is showing a concert by the pianist Nikolai Lugansky and the violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky next Thursday (28 November) in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m., featuring works by Nikolai Medtner, Johannes Brahms, and Sergei Prokofiev.

Nikolai Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist from the 30s of the last century. An implacable opponent of contemporary music, he was a post-Romantic influenced by Schumann and Brahms, as well as by Rachmaninoff, influences that have a significant presence in his first sonata for violin, which opens the concert. The two first movements premiered in Moscow in 1910, with the composer's older brother, Alexander Medtner, as the soloist. The entire work premiered a year later. It is a complex work displaying Medtner's gift for textures, development of themes and formal mastery.

The programme continues with Brahms' Sonata No. 3 in D minor, the composer's last sonata for violin. Unlike his previous sonatas, it is formed by four movements and reflects a mature Brahms who displays concision in his expressive power. Its bars again attest to the composer's extraordinary mastery of compositional technical resources.

After the intermission, the programme concludes with Sonata No. 1 by Prokófiev, another of the great works in the chamber music repertoire. It is a tormented work, written between 1938 and 1946. The music becomes ethereal while the violin performs notes that slip out disconcertingly, like "the wind in a cemetery", according to the composer.

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky is known for his interpretations of Rachmaninoff, Prokófiev, Chopin and Debussy. He regularly collaborates with directors like Nagano, Temirkanov, Honeck, Noseda, Kochanovsky, Petrenko and Shani. He has likewise been a guest of major international orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oslo, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. 

Lugansky has an exclusive contract with Harmonia Mundi, and his album César Franck, Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020) received the Diapason d'Or. His latest release, Rachmaninoff: 'Études-Tableaux; 3 Pièces, was awarded the Choc de l'Année of 2023 (Classica) and the Gramophone Editor's Choice (March 2023).

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky is a Belgian-Russian violinist. In 2007, he won the silver medal and five special prizes at the Thirteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition. His victory at the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2010 was also incredibly significant for the violinist. Since then, he has become a frequent guest in Finland. In 2010, he also won the First Prize at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna. He collaborates with Sakari Oramo, Vasily Sinaisky, Dima Slobodeniouk, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Klaus Mäkelä, and Mao Fujita, among others.

In 2019, Boriso-Glebsky was the first to record Eugène Ysaÿe's previously unknown concerto with the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Jean-Jacques Kantorov.  He plays a violin created by the Austrian violin maker Martin Schwalb in 2020. His instrument was based on a model of Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù's violin from 1744.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for the audience under 30 years 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. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families.