Carta blanca a Charlotte Bray

A programme devoted to the work of the British-German composer Charlotte Bray, performed by the Cosmos Quartet, horn player José Vicente Castelló and pianist Rosalía Gómez Lasheras, alongside pieces by Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen.

Charlotte Bray is one of the most internationally promising composers of today. Her music has been performed by the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and the Orchestre de Paris. The concert brings together six of her works, five of which are Spanish premieres, among them From the Innermost Places for cello, Ungrievable Lives for string quartet and That Crazed Smile for violin, cello and piano.

The programme also includes the Cinco piezas nocturnas by Hans Werner Henze, a key work in his catalogue in which the composer departs from the twelve-tone aesthetic to develop a more personal language. Also featured is Sonya's Lullaby by Oliver Knussen, written in the late 1970s for his daughter Sonya, who as a very young child had difficulty sleeping.

The pieces are performed by ensembles of strings, horn and piano, which are combined throughout the evening.