Christian Vásquez and Marina Heredia join the Philharmonic of the Republic of North Macedonia to offer a Spanish and Latin American program that includes four of the Canciones españolas antiguas compiled and harmonized by Federico García Lorca, in an original orchestration by José Trigueros (Anda, jaleo; Las morillas de Jaén; Cuatro Muleros and Sevillanas del siglo XVIII), El Amor Brujo and El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite nº 2, by Manuel de Falla, along with the suite from the ballet Estancia, by Alberto Ginastera. The concert will take place next Thursday, February 15, at the Skopje Philharmonic Hall.
Lorca’s songs in their present orchestration were premiered in December 2021 by Marina Heredia herself, together with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and José Trigueros at the baton, at the Ciudad de la Cultura in Santiago de Compostela. This performance under conductor Christian Vásquez will be the first outside of Spain. This coming April, again with Trigueros at the baton and together with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Marina will again perform these songs at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.
This is the first time that Christian Vásquez and Marina Heredia will coincide for a symphonic project, although both of them have long careers with orchestras around the world. Last season, Marina Heredia, together with flamenco guitarist José Quevedo ‘Bolita’ and percussionist Paquito González as co-soloists, premiered a new work at the Mercatorhalle in Duisburg that adds to the symphonic repertoire for flamenco singer and symphony orchestra: In Freedom. The Journey of the Gipsies, a work composed by Quevedo himself together with Joan Albert Amargós, who also conducted the Duisburger Philharmoniker.