De bekende fortepianist Marina Rodriguez-Brià, gespecialiseerd in Clementi, voert werken uit van Muzio Clementi, Dussek, Field en anderen. Zij speelt op een originele fortepiano gebouwd door Conrad Graf in wenen, 1836 (voorheen Colt Collection, nu in Geelvinck Muziek Musea). Conrad Graf behoort tot de top van de fortepianobouwers. Marina speelt eveneens op een tafelpiano gebouwd door Collard & Collard uit 1835-1835 (Londen), Geniet van het authentieke geluid van deze historische piano’s: verrasstend anders dan een moderne concertvleugel

Title:

Clementi and Friends: Works by Dussek, Field, Cramer, Auenbrugger and Clementi

Performer:

Marina Rodriguez (Barcelona), fortepiano

Instruments:

Conrad Graf fortepiano (1836) and Collard & Collard Square Piano (c. 1835-1845)

PROGRAM

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonata in G minor, Op 34. No. 2
• Largo e sostenuto. Allegro con fuoco
• Un poco adagio
• Finale: Molto allegro

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

Composer Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) is mainly known for didactic works such as the sonatinas or the etudes that today, two hundred years later, are still played in conservatories and music schools. These works, however, are only a small part of his output. Clementi also composed symphonies and more than seventy sonatas for the piano.

Clementi was a multifaceted figure who, besides composing, giving concerts, conducting, teaching, and promoting orchestral music, also was a music publisher and a piano manufacturer in London. Being a great traveller and a multilingual, sociable person, he had many friends, with whom he often performed in the most prestigious London salons. In today’s performance, we will be able to listen to pieces by some of them.

Among the works performed is a sonata by the Viennese pianist and composer Marianna Auenbrugger, to whom Clementi dedicated one of the two sonatas in this recital. We will also listen to a nocturne and themes with variations by Clementi’s pianist and composer friends John Field, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Johann Baptist Cramer.

Marina Rodríguez-Brià

Marina Rodríguez-Brià was born in Sant Vicenç de Castellet (Barcelona) and studied at the conservatories of Barcelona and Perpignan (France) and also at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Holder of a degree in Music and in French Philology, she has continued her studies with different international courses and is the recipient of many prizes in piano, chamber music, and poetry contests.

She has performed at Berlin’s Staatsoper, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Gateshead’s Sage auditorium, Barcelona’s Auditori, or the Staatsoper Stuttgart.  She has also performed at the international festivals of Grafenegg and Ludwigsburg, among others.

She has recorded for Radio Nacional, Catalunya Ràdio, TV3, Canal 33, TV1, TV2, Südwest Rundfunk, RAI, and Radio France. She has published thirteen albums with works of Russian composers, Romantic dances for piano duet, Spanish music for piano solo, music of Albéniz, etc.

Interested in Muzio Clementi, she has recorded two albums with works by this author (1999 and 2015), the latest one on an original fortepiano Clementi & Co. She has been the curator of the exhibition “Clementi, the Father of the Pianoforte” at the Palau de la Música Catalana (2018). She has given lectures and courses at the Music Museum of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona and other cultural institutions, and at the Historical Keyboard Society of North America.

She is a founder member of the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona.

www.marinarodriguezbria.com