Opening Concert
18 September 2026 · 20.00 · Auditori Enric Granados. La Viñenale opens with the return to Lleida of Anthony Ratinov and Yuanfan Yang, First Prize winners of the 2023 and 2025 editions of the Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition, together with young Lleida-born oboist Andrea Budau, winner of the 2025 Ricard Viñes Scholarship. A programme connecting repertoire associated with Ricard Viñes with a new generation of performers.
Opening Concert: Two First Prizes, One Emerging Talent
18 September 2026 · 20.00
Auditori Municipal Enric Granados
Anthony Ratinov, piano — First Prize 2023
Yuanfan Yang, piano — First Prize 2025
Andrea Budau, oboe — Ricard Viñes Scholarship 2025
Orchestra Camerata XXI
Néstor Bayona, conductor
The first edition of La Viñenale opens with the return to Lleida of two of the most recent winners of the Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition: Anthony Ratinov, First Prize 2023, and Yuanfan Yang, First Prize 2025.
They will be joined by young Lleida-born oboist Andrea Budau, winner of the 2025 Ricard Viñes Scholarship, in a concert bringing together artists connected with different initiatives developed around the legacy of Ricard Viñes.
The programme connects repertoire associated with Viñes’s musical world with a new generation of performers, combining works for piano and orchestra, solo oboe and piano four hands.
Programme
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30
Anthony Ratinov, piano
Jean Françaix
L’Horloge de flore, for oboe and orchestra
Andrea Budau, oboe
3 heures — Galant de jour
5 heures — Cupidone bleue
10 heures — Cierge à grandes fleurs
12 heures — Nictanthe du Malabar
17 heures — Belle de nuit
19 heures — Géranium triste
21 heures — Silène noctiflore
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8
I. Prélude
II. Rustique
III. Final
Anthony Ratinov and Yuanfan Yang, piano
Orchestrated version by Néstor Bayona
César Franck
Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra
Yuanfan Yang, piano
Maurice Ravel
Ma mère l’Oye, for piano four hands
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
Le Jardin féerique
Yuanfan Yang and Anthony Ratinov, piano
Orchestration by the composer
Approximate duration: 1 hour, without interval.
The programme offers a journey through composers closely connected with the artistic world of Ricard Viñes. Among them is César Franck, whose Symphonic Variations formed part of the orchestral repertoire performed by Viñes during the final years of his career.