As part of the Alicia de Larrocha centenary celebrations, the Barcelona Auditorium hosts this Sunday, the 26th, a marathon of 37 pianists – from 4 to 9 p.m. in Room 2 – organized by the Alicia de Larrocha Association to which free access will be given until the room is full, being viable to enter and leave throughout the five hours of music. Among the participants there will be numbers from the Catalan scene such as the great Josep Colom, Emili Brugalla, Marco Mezquida, Sira Hernández, Albert Guinovart, Carles Marigó, Ignasi Cambra, Alba Ventura, Marc Heredia, Laia Masramon, Daniel Ligorio… or the current director of the Academia Marshall, Marta Zabaleta.

The freedom with which each artist has chosen the pieces results in a sample of the wide and diverse repertoire of the Barcelona artist who died in 2009. It will sound from Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Mompou, Rodrigo, Ginastera, Montsalvatge and Turina to Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Poulenc, Schumann, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Beethoven and Wagner, as well as works by Matilde Salvador and Alícia de Larrocha herself, of whom Zabaleta will perform Two Sins of Youth.

There will also be three premieres of pieces dedicated to his figure: Three songs for Alicia de Larrocha: Porta ibérica-Sonet d’enyor-Plecs daurats by Concepció Ramió -which will be performed by Carles

On the other hand, five of the pianists who are also composers will perform their own works. Thus, this artist from Blanes, Carles Marigó, in constant evolution between musical styles, will play Papallona; the Japanese composer and performer living in Barcelona Ayako Fujiki will offer Snow crystal; Madrid’s Sylvia Torán, El tren, and Barcelona’s Albert Guinovart and Sira Hernández will provide their respective Nocturns to Alícia and Gernika. Homage to Pablo Picasso, a piece that Hernández premiered last spring in Euskadi on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the painter’s death, who reflected the horrors of war in this iconic canvas.

Also sitting at the piano in this marathon will be Mac McClure, Akiko Nomoto, Adolf Pla, the Curbelo Duo, Jean François Dichamp, Oksana Shymanska, Jordi Masó, M. Lourdes and Lluís Pérez Molina, Sylvia Torán, Pierre Reach, Hisako Hiseki, Jordi Camell , Adam Kent, Eulàlia and Ester Vela López, Lluís Rodríguez, Isabel Dobarro, Nexus Piano Duo and Luis Fernando Pérez.