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Mozart and Granados from the legendary pianist Alicia de Larrocha in Amsterdam in 1984 and Francisco Guerrero's Mass for the Dead from Barcelona's medieval Cathedral.

Born in Barcelona a hundred years ago this year, Alicia de Larrocha enjoyed a remarkable seventy five year career during which she was adored for her performances of a huge range of music. But it was for her peerless interpretations of the music of Spain above all that she was most widely admired. As one critic put it: "She had a way of idiomatically shaping a musical phrase that cannot be taught...It鈥檚 hard to imagine the piano being played better than it is in her Epic recording of Goyescas." Tonight's performance of Granados's Goyescas comes from a concert Alicia de Larrocha gave in 1984 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and certainly brought the house down. And before it come two works by Mozart that reveal her deeply personal affection for the composer.

And after that, in tonight's double-bill, the Cererols Choir from Catalonia sing Guerrero's Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) along with motets by two of his Spanish Golden Age contemporaries at Barcelona's Gothic Bas铆lica de Sant Just i Sant Pastor. Although he spent most of his life as choirmaster of Seville cathedral, Francisco Guerrero became the best known Spanish composer of the second half of the sixteenth century and his influence stretched as far as Portugal and the New World. His fifty minute Requiem of 1582 promises to be particularly moving when heard in the spacious acoustics of Barcelona's Gothic cathedral.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor K. 475
Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K. 457
Granados: Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados

Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

at approx. 8.55pm

Crist贸bal de Morales: Motet Peccantem me quotidi
Francisco Guerrero: Missa pro defunctis (Requiem)
Alonso Lobo: Motet Versa est in luctum

Cererols Choir
Marc D铆az (conductor and organ)