Ibercamera proudly presented this weekend what will probably be its new artistic bet, the guitarist Ana Vidović. And the place could not be more appropriate to enjoy a "very pleasant" evening, as defined by a spectator of the recital on Saturday at the Cervià de Ter Festival. The Croatian artist who has been living in the United States for two decades put the respectable in her pocket with a varied program that provided that always intimate sound of unamplified guitar... What if the beautiful acoustics of the church in Monastery of Santa Maria de Cervià.
The first part was an unprejudiced commitment to Bach's music transcribed for guitar. With her reserved mood and that mastery without artifice that characterizes her, Vidović was far from making a circus demonstration of what the guitar is capable of. On the contrary, she offered the first Sonata no. 1 for cello being faithful to the score, and he did the same with the Partita for flute in A minor by the genius of Leipzig. But perhaps the expressive resources were scarce to maintain the tension beyond half an hour.
Part of the public accused a certain monotony that was soon cleared up with the Great Heroic Sonata by Mauro Giuliani, a composer and guitarist born in Italian Puglia who already at the dawn of romanticism contributed with this and other works to technically complicate the instrument.
In the second part, Francesc Tàrrega's Memories of the Alhambra, and his Arab Caprice or Moorish Dance, were used. The talented Vidović, whom the public of Ibercamera will be able to listen to in November at the Palau de la Música Catalana, then ended up in the Sonatina that the Madrilenian Federico Moreno Torroba wrote in 1924. Although if something really sounded delicious it was Granada and especially Asturias, of the Spanish Suite by Isaac Albéniz.
Closing the circle that began with the approach to Bach from the guitar, the 41-year-old artist concluded with the Introduction and Variations on a Mozart Theme by Ferran Sor. To excite in the encore with A Day in November, by the Cuban Leo Brouwer, at the request of Ibercamera's own president, Josep Maria Prat ... a theme with which she will close her debut at the Palau.
Prat and Vidović have closed another date for the Ibercamera cycle: in January 2024 she will be the soloist of the Hungarian National Orchestra at the Aranjuez Concert. They are also exploring collaborations with other artists from the Camera agency. Isn't there a violin guitar repertoire? Of course: that of Mauro Giuliani himself, without going any further. And with the violinist Fumiaki Miura Vidović would perhaps form an “out of space” couple.
