Lalo and Debussy: Iberian Brilliance

Jimmy López’s Symphony no. 4, inspired by the 2024 solar eclipse, translates the primal power of celestial phenomena into music: tremors of light, shifting shadows, the vertigo of a suspended world. That spellbinding aura continues in Charlotte Sohy’s Danse mystique, where nature becomes ritual, brilliance, enchantment. Then emerges an imagined Spain: the shimmering one of Debussy in Ibéria, and the singular, hybrid vision of Lalo in his Symphonie espagnole. Neither quite a concerto nor a symphony, this work blends Germanic nobility, Andalusian accents, and violinistic sensuality—an ideal setting for Kerson Leong, whose sound magnifies every contour. A program where imagination blazes under the sun of a mythic Spain.