By Daily Press staff
Let there be light through music. Illumination Ensemble, a new chamber music organization, is set to present its debut concert, entitled “Fandango.”
The program will feature works by Vivaldi, Boccherini, Gaspar Sanz and Santiago de Murcia, along with other Baroque and Classical pieces from Italy and Spain.
The concert’s centerpiece will be Luigi Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major, known as the Fandango Quintet because of its final movement. Guitarist Richard Savino, Illumination’s associate artistic director, will be the featured soloist.
Savino has recorded the complete Boccherini guitar quintets with the Artaria Quartet for Harmonia Mundi. Savino also will play selections from his award-winning recording of works by Spanish composer Santiago de Murcia (1685-1732) (Koch International Classics). Other works in the program include Vivaldi’s Follia in D minor and music by Gaspar Sanz (b. 1640).
Featured players include some of California’s period instrument specialists, music officials say: Janet Worsley-Strauss and Susan Feldman, violins; Daniel Seidenberg, violin and viola; and William Skeen, violoncello and viola da gamba.
The Lladró gallery on Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive at Brighton offers a spacious, yet intimate venue for Illumination’s concert, according to organizers. Like much of the music on the program, Lladró, the internationally recognized creator of handcrafted porcelain, has roots in Spain. The company was founded in 1953 by three Lladró brothers — Juan, José, and Vicente — in Almácera, a rural village near Valencia, Spain. Today, Lladró porcelain is exported to more than 100 countries; the international company is still based in Valencia and owned by the Lladró Family.
Fandango will take place on Friday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m. at Lladró, 408 North Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills. General admission is $35. For tickets and further information, call (310) 393-8460 or (800) 595-4849 or visit www.illuminatemusic.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 2, 2005. Read the original PDF.