CityMusic Cleveland Offers “Music in the Time of Goya”

Fri 1/27 @ 7-9PM

CityMusic Cleveland returns to the Gallery at Praxis Fiber Workshop this weekend to present an evening of works by 18th-century Spanish and Spanish-influenced composers dubbed “Music in the Time of Goya.”

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In his earlier years as a court painter, he was known for his paintings of royalty; later his vision became darker and more threatening, filled with visions of war, insanity, religious and political corruption and supernatural figures such as demons and witches.

The program they’ll perform includes excerpts from “Vendado es Amor, no es ciego” by Spanish composer José de Nebra who died about 20 years after Goya’s birth; Harpsichord Quintet No. 4 by Spanish composer Antonio Soler, whose later years were also contemporaneous with Goya’s youth; String Trio in B-flat Major by Italian composer Gaetano Bunetti, who, like Goya, worked in the courts of Spanish kings Charles III and Charles IV; and “Si aquel Monarca de Israel” by Francisco Corselli, another 18th-century Italian composer who moved to Madrid as a young man.

Musicians include violinists Guillermo Salas-Suárez and Alan Choo, violist Yael Senamaud, cellist Jane Leggiero, bassist Tracy Rowell; harpsichordist QinYing Tan and soprano Andrea Walker.

Go to citymusiccleveland/music-in-the-time-of-goya for more information.

 

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