Melvyn Tan (piano)/ Harriet Walter – Seasons in Granada (words & music)

The Literary Festival carries on where the summer festival left off with a celebration of wonderful music… and wonderful words. With evocative texts from Virginia Woolf, Laurie Lee and Federico Garcia Lorca,  and music by Albeniz, Granados and Ravel, be led by pianist Melvyn Tan and acclaimed actress Dame Harriet Walker (Succession, Killing Eve, Ted Lasso) into a world of reflections and impressions of a Spain on the brink of a disastrous civil war.

The city of Granada itself – forcibly converted in 1492 from an intensely luminous Arab culture to a Christianity represented by St Michael – has been a constant inspiration to writers, not least Lorca, who was born within sight of the magnificent architectural jewel.

Programme

Virginia Woolf: To Spain
Albeniz: España – Prelude, Tango, Malagueña 
Gerald Brenan: South from Granada  
Albeniz: Suite Española – Asturias  
Laurie Lee: As I walked out one Midsummer Morning  
Albeniz: Ibéria – Fête-Dieu à Seville      
Antonio Machado: To Juan Ramon Jimenez, on his book Sad Arias
Granados:  Goyescas – la Maja y el Ruiseñor (the Maiden and the Nightingale)
Federico Garcia Lorca: Play and Theory of the Duende 
Albeniz: Ibéria – El Albaicin         
Federico Garcia Lorca: Holy Week in Granada, A Season in Granada , Gypsy Ballads
Albeniz: Suite Española – Granada .
Debussy: Préludes book 2 – La Puerta del Viño
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Letter to Adolfo Salazar and The Poet Speaks to his Love on the Telephone (Sonnets of Dark Love)
Ravel: Miroirs – Alborada del Gracioso    

This event ends at approximately 8.45pm