Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Fazil Say

Concert by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist and composer Fazil Say, with works by Szymanowski, at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a violinist born in Moldova whose career centres on concert music and programmes of unusual repertoire. Fazil Say is a Turkish pianist and composer; in his compositions he integrates elements of his country's tradition and of jazz. Both share the stage in this concert, which falls within the classical repertoire.

The programme includes music by Szymanowski, a Polish composer born in 1882 and who died in 1937, whose writing sits in the wake of late Romanticism and Impressionism. The proposal is aimed at those seeking early twentieth-century repertoire for violin and piano performed by two soloists with careers of their own.

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a Modernista building in Barcelona designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997. As well as concerts, it hosts exhibitions and cultural activities, and its main hall is the setting for this evening.