"Love and Death" is a documentary based on the life of the Spanish composer Enrique Granados and is produced by López-Li Films and RTVE, with the collaboration of the ICAA, of the Community of Madrid, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and Ibermúsica. In it, music performers such as Rosa Torres-Pardo, Evgeny Kissin, Cañizares, Arcángel, Rocío Márquez, Carlos Álvarez and Nancy Fabiola Herrera participate, among others, and actors such as Jordi Mollà, Emma Suárez, Ramón Fontseré and Alicia Sánchez who give their voices. The film premieres during the 63rd edition of the Seminci of Valladolid.
In the words of its director "This story talks about destiny and also about life as a battlefield, it also talks about love, enthusiasm, friendship ... And, above all, this film, in its best moments, is about the transmission of the formidable music of Enrique Granados through today's music performers, direct heirs of the composer, of his talent and generosity, who approach us to his story and music, a hundred years after a trip interrupted by tragedy. "
Love and death recreates the passionate and stormy history of the composer Enrique Granados in the Barcelona of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, the struggle for life and the first triumphs ... The story is interspersed with new versions of his masterpieces.
In the words of its director "This story talks about destiny and also about life as a battlefield, it also talks about love, enthusiasm, friendship ... And, above all, this film, in its best moments, is about the transmission of the formidable music of Enrique Granados through today's music performers, direct heirs of the composer, of his talent and generosity, who approach us to his story and music, a hundred years after a trip interrupted by tragedy. "
Love and death recreates the passionate and stormy history of the composer Enrique Granados in the Barcelona of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, the struggle for life and the first triumphs ... The story is interspersed with new versions of his masterpieces.