Fighting against the winds and tides of increasingly limited budgets for certain cultural proposals, the International Music Week of Medina del Campo returns to the Municipal Auditorium, which reaches 33 editions with one day less than usual in a program that has no shortage of attractions.
The Week, directed once again by the tireless Emiliano Allende, its founder, begins this Saturday (8:30 p.m.) with a performance by the Camerata Lírica orchestra and choir, who will offer a selection of The Messiah by Handel with Roberto Albero at the baton and with the solo voices of Raquel del Pino (soprano), Julieta Navarro (contralto), Daniel González (tenor) and Alejandro Sánchez (baritone).
Double program for Sunday, the first designed to offer “a first contact with music”, with the performance of Zig Zag Danza con Mimesisin the Auditorium (1:00 p.m.), show designed for children from 0 to 3 years old. In the afternoon, at the Simón Ruiz Hospital (7:00 p.m.), Music Week recovers an initiative that could already be seen in Film Week: the screening of Zarzuela timeby director Cristina Otero.
On November 18, without leaving the Auditorium (8:30 p.m.), the event directed by Emiliano Allende will manage to offer its audience a proposal sought “during editions”: the Goldberg Variations BWV 988 of Bach, performed in their entirety by the Russian pianist Varvara, a performer who has worked under the orders of teachers such as Eliahu Inbal or Valery Gergiev, and has collaborated with groups such as the Galician Symphony Orchestra or the Tonhalle of Zurich.
For the first time in Music Week, on the 19th (8:30 p.m.), Concerto 1700 will arrive in Medina del Campo, a unique early music group that, led by the violinist and director Daniel Pinteño, will offer the show Back to follia! With barely ten years of life, they have already performed at the National Auditorium of Spain as well as at cultural events such as the Santander and Granada music festivals, as well as at the San Sebastián Fortnight. They will address chaconas, zarambeques, fandangos and folías from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Singular will also be, due to the presence of the castanet soloist Tomás Martín, the concert on the 20th (8:30 p.m.), performed by the Iberycas string sextet, a group made up of musicians from the OSCyL focused on the “dissemination of the Spanish chamber repertoire.” which will provide a repertoire that includes works by Turina, The bullfighter’s prayerAlbéniz, with a four-movement arrangement of his Spanish suiteas well as the premiere of Sonatas and fandango for castanets and string orchestraby Father Soler and Flores Chaviano.
The International Music Week will not miss its appointment with the opera, on the 21st (8:00 p.m.), again with the Camerata Lírica on the stage of the Auditorium. Directed by Albero and Sergio Kuhlmann, with a dozen voices, they will address The magic flute by Mozart.
The OSCyL, once again in Medina, will be in charge of closing the 33rd International Music Week, with a concert on the 22nd (8:30 p.m.) directed by José Trigueros. They will perform a Spanish music program with the singer Marina Heredia. By Manuel de Falla, with The corregidor and the millerto García Lorca, with The four mule drivers, Zorongo, Anda jaleo o Chinitas coffeepassing through songs by Eduard Toldrà, such as Night o Candles and reflections.
Organized by the Medina del Campo City Council, the veteran festival has the support of the Junta de Castilla y León, the Provincial Council of Valladolid and the Menade winery.
