Grigory Sokolovkeeps the concert scheduled for tomorrow at the Auditorium of Tenerife Adan Martinbeing in good health, after overcoming yesterday a brief indisposition due to tension problems, from which he recovered immediately and did not need to be taken to hospital. The famous Russian pianist offered a concert yesterday at the Alfredo Kraus Auditoriumwithin the programming 38th Canary Islands International Music Festival, and suffered a gang member motivated by a blood pressure problem, after completing the execution of the program in its entirety. When he got up he had to lean on the piano and two employees of the Auditorium immediately came out on stage, who helped him to get to the dressing room.
In the same Auditorium he was treated by the toilets and recovered immediately, so he did not require hospital care. The pianist himself expressed his regret for not having been able to go out to greet the public at the end of the performance, as he would have liked, after the “brilliant concert” offered, as described on social networks last night, by the State Orchestra Russian ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’ with Vassily Petrenko at the front».
The Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov was in charge of closing the Canary Islands Music Festival on Saturday at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and tomorrow, Monday 14, he will perform at the Tenerife Auditorium, with two concerts scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
The repertoire that Sokolov brings to the 38th Festival de Música de Canarias opens with Variations and Fugue for piano in E flat majorOp. 35′ by Beethoven, a set of fifteen pieces composed in 1802, known as “Heroic Variations” because it was used as the final theme of his Symphony No. 3, written the following year, as this newspaper had reported.
