Jaroussky embarks on a musical journey between centuries in Tenerife

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Philippe Jaroussky (Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France, 1978), considered one of the best countertenors in the world and the most admired of his generation, is another of the iconic voices that have joined the Canary Islands International Music Festival this year ( FIMC). Jaroussky is a star of lyrical music and also one of the main reasons why the countertenor's voice has ceased to be appreciated as a rarity and has now achieved a position characterized by respect. Accompanied by his compatriot, classical guitarist Thibaut García (Toulouse, France, 1994), he will perform this Saturday night at the Tenerife Auditorium (8:00 p.m.) and tomorrow at the Pérez Galdós Theater in Gran Canaria (7:00 p.m.).

Both musicians will perform in these concerts some of the treasures included in the recent album they have recorded together, entitled À sa guitare (the name given to a piece by Francis Poulenc), an album in which, carried away by the sound of the guitar, they launch to give voice to a musical journey through the centuries with stops in France, Great Britain, Australia, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and the United States. It is a "selection of jewels that we found while reading a lot of different music", explains Philippe Jaroussky himself, referring to this repertoire of pieces that were composed in a period that goes from classicism to the 20th century.

YEARS OF PREPARATION

Philippe Jaroussky's mother remembers that when he was little, the French interpreter sang with a head voice, different from the chest voice of a tenor or a baritone, higher pitched, with a different color, which allows a man to reach mezzo-soprano notes and sonorities. , alto or soprano, usually reserved for women. Something like a falsetto, but with a technique that requires years of training.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Jaroussky emprende en Tenerife una travesía musical entre siglos

His prodigious and admired voice has been repeatedly recognized at the French Victoires de la Musique awards (Best New Lyric Artist in 2004, Lyrical Artist of the Year in 2007 and, in 2010, CD of the Year 2009) and has also received numerous German Echo Klassik awards, in the years 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2015. His technique allows him to move, exploring in a very deep way the baroque repertoire, from the refinement of the Italian Seicento (Monteverdi, Sances or Rossi) to the dazzling brilliance of the arias of Georg Friedrich Handel or Antonio Vivaldi. A whole intimate world, sometimes whispered, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes painful, but always full of emotion and spirituality.

THE 'CASTRATI' OF THE BAROQUE

When he began to sing, Philippe Jaroussky fell in love with the castrati, the castrated singers of the baroque, whose voice, impossible to reconstruct today, is linked to that of the countertenors, capable of singing the same repertoire without any physical mutilation involved. "It's a passionate relationship, of love and hate," replies the French. And it is that for years the public has come to listen to the countertenors like someone who was attending a prodigy of nature, a formidable nightingale. "I don't think there's anything feminine about the countertenor's voice, but I do think it's a male voice that shows a different sensitivity," says the countertenor, who also states that there is "something political in addressing what is thought to be a man cannot do. There is a fight against stereotypes.”

CLASSIC GUITAR

Jaroussky has found the perfect partner to get straight to the heart of the public: the classical guitarist Thibaut García, a young French-Spanish musician who has won numerous international competitions. In 2017 he was named BBC New Generation Artist, and, two years later, Instrumental Revelation at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. García is invited by the main guitar festivals in the world and by many orchestras.

Tickets for the two performances are available on the Canary Islands International Music Festival website (www.icdcultural.org/fimc) and on the usual sales platforms of the Tenerife Auditorium and the Pérez Galdós Theatre.

LANG LANG, WHO STARS IN AN FIMC CONCERT THIS SUNDAY ON THE ISLAND, MEETS A HUNDRED OF STUDENTS FROM THE ARCHIPELAGO

The Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who will perform tomorrow in the capital of Tenerife as part of the 38th International Music Festival of the Canary Islands (FIMC), held a meeting on Thursday at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with a hundred students from music from this island and from Tenerife. For more than an hour, the acclaimed pianist talked about his career and his experience on stage, as well as giving the students some advice on his particular way of interpreting music.

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