Grisha Goryachev

Grisha Goryachev is a classical guitarist scheduled to perform as soloist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra in a program titled "Passport to Spain." He is featured in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, a work written for solo guitar and orchestra, alongside orchestral showpieces by Rimsky-Korsakov, Albéniz, and Falla.

This program centers on Spanish and Spanish-inflected orchestral color. The guitarist's main task is Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, a piece built around a guitar that must project delicate, plucked lines against a full orchestra, something achieved through careful balance and amplification in concert halls. Listeners can expect a slow middle movement built on a long, aching melody first stated by the English horn, and outer movements with a dance-like lift borrowed from Spanish court and folk rhythms. The rest of the evening, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, Albéniz's Iberia, and Falla's Three-Cornered Hat suites, surrounds the concerto with vivid, folk-flavored orchestral writing full of castanet-like rhythms, sudden brass fanfares, and swirling string passages evoking Spanish dance and street life.