Duende Teo Gheorghiu

• Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916):
• 1 Goyescas: IV. Quejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor 05:27
• Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909): Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47:
• 2 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: I. Serenata 04:15
• 3 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: II. Curranda 04:22
• 4 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: III. Sevillana 04:38
• 5 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: IV. Saeta 04:38
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 6 Préludes, Livre 1, L. 117: IX. La sérénade interrompue 02:23
• 7 Préludes, Livre 2, L. 123: III. La puerta del vino 03:34
• 8 Estampes, L. 100: II. La soirée dans Grenade 05:18
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937):
• 9 Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del Gracioso 07:29
• Isaac Albéniz: Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47:
• 10 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: V. Leyenda 07:21
• 11 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: VI. Fantasia 04:35
• 12 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: VII. Seguidillas 03:00
• 13 Suita Española No. 1, Op. 47: VIII. Capricho 04:35
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946):
• 14 El amor brujo: VIII. Danza ritual del fuego 03:49
• Total Runtime 01:05:24

Info for Duende

One hot summer day, I headed due south from London and crossed France and Spain on my road bike. Challenging it was, yet beautiful, emotional and colourful all at once - while pedaling thousands of kilometers, the journey brought me closer to my innermost core.

Upon my return home, I wished to express all the intense feelings and sensations I experienced on the road in my own way - the language of music.

The metamorphosis was already underway when I became aware of the duende and after digging a bit deeper, I immediately sensed that it was this feeling which touched me on my journey, giving me strength and letting me connect with people and their land more profoundly.

"el duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought - El duende is not in the throat: el duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet." (Federico García Lorca)

Teo Gheorghiu, piano

Teo Gheorghiu
Recipient of the BeethovenRing from the Beethovenfest in Bonn in 2010, Teo Gheorghiu’s plans for the 2014/15 season and beyond include performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Müncher Symphoniker and Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais. Other season highlights include chamber music performances with the Carmina Quartet (with whom he recorded Dvořák’s Piano Quintet for Sony) at St Gallen in Switzerland, and solo recitals at the Tonhalle in Zürich, Kultur und Kongresshaus Aarau, Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile, and Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse.

Last season Teo performed with Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, and with Musikkollegium Winterthur for the New Year Gala concerts at Zurich’s Tonhalle. He also undertook recital tours of South America and Taiwan. Recent seasons have seen him perform in recital at the Lucerne Festival and make his debuts at the Louvre and Dvořák Prague Festival. Concerto appearances have included performances with the the Pittsburgh and Tokyo Symphony orchestras, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio. He has also given concerts with Sinfonieorchester Basel, Zürcher Kammerorchester, and the Danish National and English Chamber orchestras. He has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, and at the Verbier, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Ohrid festivals.

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