“Aventura”, by Luis de Pablo, a commission from the BBVA Foundation composed in 2019, will be premiered posthumously tomorrow in Italy.

The Spanish composer Luis De Pablo, who died on 10 October last year, will not be able to attend the world premiere of his Aventura, a work for large orchestra and cello composed in 2019 commissioned by the BBVA Foundation, which will be held tomorrow, Thursday 27 October, at 20:30, at the Teatro Manzoni, as part of the symphonic season of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.

The work is structured in five movements: Introduction, Soloist’s Rest, Labyrinth, Canzone and Finis, and will be conducted by the Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv, with the intervention, as soloist, of cellist Michele Marco Rossi. Aventura is part of a programme that is completed by two other works by Ukrainian composers, Reflections of Hope by Eduard Resatsch (Lviv, 1972) and Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 50 by Borys Lyatoshynsky (Zhytomyr, 1865-Kyiv, 1968). Reflections of Hope was written during the confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and was premiered via the Internet on a digital platform and is also performed for the first time in Bologna in concert. At some points in the work, the musicians are asked to speak, whisper or shout in twenty different languages. The themes brought into play in this composition refer in general to the relationships between human beings, near and far, and thus extend to today’s delicate geopolitical situation.