La Catedral
Photo credit: Neil Hanna
Thursday, 24 September; 1pm
Guitarist Ian Watt fills Hexham Abbey’s lovely North Transept with solo guitar music inspired by (and including) Agustin Barrios Mangoré’s classic, La Catedral. Picture yourself roaming the spectacular cathedral of Montevideo, Uruguay, as the music of JS Bach fills the air – that was Mangoré’s starting point in creating his atmospheric and dramatic masterpiece. Around it, Watt travels far and wide in an hour of mesmerising music.
An acclaimed guitarist, Ian is praised by the likes of Classical Guitar Magazine as
‘a guitarist of outstanding skill and originality’. His special affinity with the music of South America is as compelling as his love of music from the UK so we can expect a continent hopping tour-de-force.
£15 adults / £5 aged 21 and under (unreserved)
Concert takes place in the North Transept and lasts approx 65 minutes, no interval