“Noches de España” is the title of the 62nd edition of the International Piano Festival. Spain will be featured for the first time in the event, so musicians who were inspired by or experienced the Latin climate will be featured.
Starring for the first time in an edition of the Festival, the Latin country par excellence has always exerted an almost exotic fascination among European composers. Starting with the most important piano works of the Spanish world, Albéniz’s Iberia, Granados’ Goyescas, and Manuel de Falla’s Noches en los jardines de España, which represent the soul and traditions of this nation, the Festival will alternate between “musical postcards” by composers who had no direct ties with Spain, although they evoked it musically within their works – Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt and Debussy – and composers who instead breathed “Spanish nights,” such as Ravel, Chopin and Scarlatti.
In 2025 the Festival will commemorate 30 years since the death of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, whose artistic legacy is more alive than ever.
The event has been hosting the best of international pianism in Bergamo and Brescia for more than 50 years, with instrumentalists, singers, conductors and orchestras from all over the world. The Festival is characterized by a theme-based physiognomy, with a common thread that, from time to time, allows the focus to be on an author, a cultural milieu, or a historical period. In addition, it is one of the world’s major events dedicated to the piano, understood both as a solo instrument and as a prestigious interlocutor of great orchestras.
Appointments in Bergamo will be held at Teatro Donizetti, Teatro Sociale and Auditorium Modernissimo in Nembro. While the Brescia dates will be hosted by Teatro Grande, Teatro Borsoni and Auditorium San Barnaba.