THE SPANISH ACQUISITION X TEMPO RUBATO:
INTERNATIONAL SHERRY WEEK CELEBRATION
SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2025
2:30pm - 6pm

We are partnering with our good friends Leah and Scott from The Spanish Acquisition to celebrate International Sherry Week 2025.

Sunday 9th November 2.30pm.

The afternoon will feature two sets of music inspired by the home of sherry, the Andalucían Region of Spain. And before, between and after the music, there will be sherry and tapas for sale at the bar, served by Leah and Scott.

SET 1: JOSEPHINE VAINS, cello + BENJAMIN MARTIN, piano

Cellist Josephine Vains is a versatile and engaging performer, heard regularly in concert around Australia and overseas. She has worked with myriad artists on diverse projects including piano trio / quartet / quintet, string quartet, opera, baroque ensembles, contemporary and electronic music, and Argentine tango music.

She is joined by pianist Benjamin Martin, an artist of exceptional versatility and subtlety of expression who was identified by The New York Times as 'Distinctive, arresting in style' and The Australian in 2000 as ‘The best young talent for the new millennium’.

The duo presents a rich program of Spanish instrumental music and song arrangements, for cello and piano.

Program

Manuel de Falla
Serenata Andaluza

Enrique Granados
Andaluza

Rogelio Huguet y Tagell
Flamenco from Suite espagnole No.1

Manuel de Falla
Suite populaire espagnole

SET 2: DUO ZEFIRA: ECHOES OF ANDALUSIA
Roberta Diamond, soprano + Hannah Lane, Baroque harp

Duo Zefira is a collaboration between Roberta Diamond and Hannah Lane, challenging the boundaries of conventional classical music by exploring the connection between art music and folkloric culture. ‘Echoes of Andalusia’ explores the music of the Southern Iberian peninsula and its influence throughout Europe. Traditional melodies from the Sephardic diaspora are intertwined with theatre music from the Spanish Golden Age and popular compositions that travelled to the other end of the continent.

Soprano Roberta Diamond has spent the last ten years of her life sharing music and literature from the Andalucía region with audiences around the world, having become fascinated with the music of the region during her studies of Spanish and Arabic in Seville. She presents selections from her recent album ‘Secrets of Andalusia’, which explores the origins of modern flamenco music and features 16th/17th century Castilian songs, Sephardic songs and her own compositions of 12th-century Arabic poems from female poets in Andalusia.

Roberta is joined by Baroque harpist Hannah Lane, who has been acclaimed as a ‘true master of the instrument’ (Australian Stage, 2022), and whose performances have been praised for their emotional depth, subtlety and sparkling virtuosity.

PROGRAM

Traditional Sephardic
Yo me enamoré de un aire

Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (c. 1626 - 1677)
Españoletas (instrumental)

Anonymous, Robert Dowland’s A Musicall Banquet, 1610
Vuestros ojos

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670
Sé que me muero de amor

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580 - 1651)
Canario

José Marín (c. 1618 - 1699)
No piense Menguilla

Juan Francisco Gómez (1647 - 1719)
Aura tierna, amorosa

Traditional Sephardic
Una matica de ruda

Hamda bint Ziyad al-Muaddib (12th century) arr. Roberta Diamond
أبا َح الدم ُع أسراري بوادي (My tears have betrayed their secrets in a valley)

Antonio de Cabezón (1510 - 1566)
Ancor che col partire

Traditional Sephardic
Nani Nani

Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Nana from Siete canciones populares españolas