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Álvaro Baltanás Meliveo – Piano Plus

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The pianist Meliveo looks into the camera, his hands clasped in front of his chin.
Copyright: Victor Meliveo

For Álvaro, concerts are all about interacting and establishing a dialogue with his audience. Right from the outset, he communicates with his audience, explaining the programme, arousing curiosity and revealing personal details in the process.

This event is in the past.

For Álvaro, concerts are all about interacting and establishing a dialogue with his audience. Right from the outset, he communicates with his audience, explaining the programme, arousing curiosity and revealing personal details in the process.

More than just an ordinary concert, Álvaro’s performances burst the boundaries of convention, as he bestows us with an intimate, intense experience in an atmosphere that is nevertheless laid-back and easy-going.

 

Álvaro Baltanás Meliveo is known for his refined sound, his charisma on stage and his inexhaustible curiosity in exploring the repertoire he has developed under the legendary pianist Eliso Virsaladze.

 

Born in Málaga, the pianist has won prizes at national (Spanish) and international competitions and has been highly praised by the press. He has played in major European concert halls and appeared as a soloist with renowned orchestras, in particular the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. A passionate chamber musician, he is a welcome guest at festivals such as the Emil Gilels Festival in Germany, the Sermoneta Music Festival in Italy and the Festival de Jovens Pianistas in Portugal.

 

With both intuition and reflection, Álvaro combines Andalusian temperament with analytical perceptiveness and a deep understanding of the music, making for an an unmistakable style.

“He doesn’t do things by halves, and he certainly doesn’t cater to the mainstream. When Álvaro Baltanás performs at the piano, he literally gives his all, striving for maximum authenticity and revealing his true inner self.”

Piano News Magazine

Programme

Padre Antonio Soler (1729–1783): Selected piano sonatas

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909): From the Iberia suite, volume one

  • Évocation (Prèlude)
  • El Puerto (Cadix)
  • Fête-Dieu à Séville

Intermission

 

Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881): Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Promenade
  • Gnomus
  • Promenade
  • Il Vecchio Castello
  • Promenade
  • Tuileries (Children’s Quarrel after Games)
  • Bydło (Cattle)
  • Promenade
  • Ballet of Unhatched Chicks
  • “Samuel” Goldenberg and “Schmuÿle”
  • Promenade
  • Limoges. The Market (The Great News)
  • Catacombae (Roman Tomb)
  • Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
  • The Hut on Hen’s Legst (Baba-Jaga)
  • The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev)

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