Granada-born Sara Jiménez has been a solo dancer with the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía. Her performance at LacMus is associated with a musical program consisting partly of notated compositions inspired by Hispanic dances and partly of flamenco proper. In the first section, Isaac Albéniz is represented by his piano classics, Córdoba and Asturias, in guitar transcription. Less well-known is his namesake (but not relative) from a century earlier, Mateo Albéniz, a respected Basque chapel master, whose Sonata in D for harpsichord, conceived in a slightly updated Domenico-Scarlatti-like style, is often heard in guitar arrangement. His older fellow, Salvador Castro de Gistau, is remembered for, at the peak of the fandango popularity (the mid-18th century), he wrote a Fandango for guitar that nicely fits the slot between Santiago de Murcia’s pithy prototype and Luigi Boccherini’s seminal quintets for guitar and strings. A two-guitar arrangement of Ravel’s grand Boléro rounds off the program. The second part offers a selection of typical flamenco dance steps.
The program may undergo minor changes.
