Andrea Casarrubios Recital at the Church of Leiguarda
In this evening of Festival ADAR 2025, cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios presented a recital at the Church of Leiguarda. Trained between Spain and the United States and recently nominated for a Grammy for her work SEVEN, Casarrubios offered a programme combining instrumental virtuosity with a deeply personal compositional voice.
The programme travelled across more than two centuries of music. It opened with two sonatas by Luigi Boccherini, a central figure of Classicism who developed much of his career in Spain. The piano then took focus with the impressionistic delicacy of Claude Debussy, preparing a particularly intimate central section with three works by Casarrubios herself (2018-2023), where memory, folklore, and emotion met within a personal musical language.
The second half included Brown Leaves Moving by Guillermo Laporta, a piece weaving improvisation and notation in an open format. Casarrubios then performed SEVEN, composed in tribute to the victims of the pandemic. The recital closed with a section from Dvořák’s Dumky Trio, where melancholy and folk vitality coexisted in a free and deeply expressive structure.
Programme
Luigi Boccherini - Sonata for cello and basso continuo G. 9 in F major, Adagio assai (1764) 4’
Luigi Boccherini - Sonata for cello and basso continuo G. 6 in C major, Allegro (1772) 3’
Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 for solo piano (1888) 5’
Andrea Casarrubios - Three pieces for cello and piano 16’
• Silbo (2021)
• Sonia (2023)
• 24 Mozas (2018)
Guillermo Laporta - Brown Leaves Moving (2020) 6’
Andrea Casarrubios - SEVEN for solo cello (2020) 10’
Antonín Dvořák - “Dumky” Trio, Op. 90 6’
• Lento maestoso - Allegro vivace
Details
Date:
Saturday, 16 August 2025
20:00 - 21:00
Location:
Church of Leiguarda
Leiguarda, Belmonte de Miranda
Musicians:
Andrea Casarrubios (cello)
Guillermo Laporta (flute)
Josefina Urraca (piano)
Total duration:
50’
Format:
Recital