Important note: All of these season concerts have been cancelled following the official indications on coronavirus prevention and containment.

Having acquainted ourselves with the third in the series in the previous programme, we now turn to Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and, with it, a very different facet of the Hungarian: that of outstanding virtuoso pianist, capable of tackling technical challenges of enormous difficulty and presenting them in the midst of scintillating and ferocious pieces of music (in some passages of the concerto, the pianist must pound the keyboard with the palms of the hands). Only the very best performers can play it, and in the case of Yulianna Avdeeva, winner of the Chopin Contest in 2010, critics have highlighted not only her energy but also her elegance and interpretive clarity.

In the second part, Robert Treviño will approach another of the symphonic monuments of the 20th century, Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms, which is influenced by nature and is perhaps the most optimistic and accessible of the four that he composed, without compromising the principles of almost perfect composition.