Mallorcan pianist Magí Garcías inaugurates the Contemporary Music Festival ‘Nits de Libèl-lula’ in the garden of Can Prunera.
The magic of Magí Garcías filled the sculpture garden of Can Prunera with music, sensibility and harmony. The pianist brought together more than 130 people who enjoyed pieces by Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Lizst and Debussy. During the concert, the six-piece composition for piano ––La vall de Juli––which Magí Garcías created inspired by Can Prunera and the work of the Solleric painter Juli Ramis, was performed for the first time in Mallorca.
During the first movement ––La vall dels Tarongers–– the mystery of the valley of Sóller is subtly revealed to us thanks to the perfect, silent flight of a lark. Perched on the stone table, it observes, curious, the life around it. Then it takes flight towards the mountains of Alfàbia, now converted into a story to be lived. The second and third movements took us into the intimacy of epistolary writing. Cartes des de Belfort and Pleyel combine the poetics of waiting, the blank canvas that is the adventure of life and the subtle union produced by distance, shortened at times by the ephemeral arpeggio of memory. The Magraner family’s Pleyel piano still lives in Can Prunera. It remembers the past, the notes that he has been. Perhaps he longs for the day when it was a tree, wood and then a piano. Simple and solemn, ancient and timeless, it makes us evoke nostalgia and hopes of a distant time that has not entirely gone.
In the fourth, fifth and sixth movements ––Libèl-lules ploren vidres, L’escala del carrer de la Lluna and Juli tot sol a la Sala dels Quadres––the search for light is the leitmotif. Light is projected in the gazes of the dragonflies, always mysterious. From their eyes falls a crystal tear that ascends and descends lightly, caressing the spiral staircase inside Can Prunera. Its spiral attracts and hypnotizes us. The pleasure is sublime.
Juli Ramis is watching all the sensorial polyphony that flows from Magí’s hands. His Self-portrait, located in the center of the main hall of the art nouveau’s house, observes everything. Nothing escapes the attentive gaze of this man who sought his particular destiny in the colours of the world. Music made painting. Painting made music. The perfect synchrony of a musical friendship that came to life in the garden of Can Prunera.
On the 26th of July at 20:00h, Pere and Clara Fiol, father and daughter, will celebrate a concert in the garden, offering a repertoire of popular songs in Catalan that have been played all their lives in Mallorcan homes. Lluís Llach, María del Mar Bonet, Serrat and Raimon are reconfigured in the hands of this duo that transports us back to that time, but which is sprinkled with the present and new views.
On the 23th of August at 20:00h Adela Peraita, Paco Torres and Steve Withers bring back one of their most fascinating projects: Sterlin Plays Cohen. With their reinterpretation of this legendary album, the trio takes up the project they presented more than a decade ago under the name Llum i Negre: a book-disc and a tour that turned each evening into an unrepeatable experience.
On 20th of October, Alanaire will transform their usual line-up to offer us an idyllic, fugitive and minimalist moment in the garden of Can Prunera. Laura Serra and Leire Corpas will be the protagonists of this unique experience through the elaborate rhythms and sophisticated harmonies that dress the deep themes of the band. They will give us their music in a surprising and poetic format.
In October, on a date yet to be set, Leire Corpas will give a concert in the garden of Can Prunera. She will show us her first project as an individual artist for the magical space that is Can Prunera.