Concert at the Monastery of Villanueva de Oscos
Festival ADAR 2025 arrived at the Monastery of Santa María de Villanueva de Oscos, a recently restored site that unveiled new roofing in 2024 after an ambitious conservation project. The Romanesque church and the monastery’s austere surroundings offered an exceptional setting for a chamber concert with the festival’s soloists.
The programme brought together three complementary musical worlds: Telemann’s Baroque refinement, Falla’s stylised folklore, and Mussorgsky’s sonic painting. Through this range of aesthetics, the concert created a dialogue across eras, styles, and ways of storytelling, highlighting the ensemble’s rich palette of timbres and the shared listening between performers.
Programme
Georg Philipp Telemann - Flute Quartets (selection) (c. 1730) 10’
Manuel de Falla - Seven Popular Spanish Songs (1914) 12’
Arrangement for quintet
• The Moorish Cloth
• Murcian Seguidilla
• Asturiana
• Jota
• Lullaby
• Song
• Polo
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) 35’
Version for ensemble (arrangement by CreArtBox)
• Promenade
• Gnomus
• Promenade
• The Old Castle
• Promenade
• Tuileries
• Bydlo
• Promenade
• Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
• "Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmuÿle"
• Promenade
• The Market at Limoges
• Catacombs
• Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
• The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)
• The Great Gate of Kiev
Details
Date:
Thursday, 14 August 2025
20:00 - 21:00
Location:
Church of the Monastery of Villanueva de Oscos
Villanueva de Oscos, Asturias
Musicians:
Jone de la Fuente (violin)
Almudena Arribas (viola)
Natania Hoffman (cello)
Guillermo Laporta (flute)
Josefina Urraca (piano)
Total duration:
62’
Format:
Chamber concert