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PAU VALLVÉ
LA VIDA ÉS ARA
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 9/12/2021 21:00
PAU VALLVÉ
LA VIDA ÉS ARA
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 10/12/2021 21:00
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11
Dec
EL POEMA DE L'ÈXTASI
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 11/12/2021 19:00
Saturday, 11/12/2021 19:00
EL POEMA DE L'ÈXTASI
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 11/12/2021 19:00
In the same way as works like Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder (Songs of Gurre), or Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies, The Poem of Ecstasy, by Alexander Scriabin, is a cornerstone of the radical musical transformation that took place during the early 20th century.
Scriabin's music feeds off a mystical and theosophical conception of the musical act, intimately linked to a correlation between sonic space, light and colour. While it is in piano music that the composer reaches the highest levels of abstraction, the five symphonic works that complete his oeuvre are foundational monuments of modern symphonic language. The Poem of Ecstasy is a song of praise to liberated action and energy, to the cosmos, to spirit and to eternal creation, to consciousness, and to ecstatic time.
Scriabin's music feeds off a mystical and theosophical conception of the musical act, intimately linked to a correlation between sonic space, light and colour. While it is in piano music that the composer reaches the highest levels of abstraction, the five symphonic works that complete his oeuvre are foundational monuments of modern symphonic language. The Poem of Ecstasy is a song of praise to liberated action and energy, to the cosmos, to spirit and to eternal creation, to consciousness, and to ecstatic time.
12
Dec
EL POEMA DE L'ÈXTASI
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 12/12/2021 11:00
Sunday, 12/12/2021 11:00
EL POEMA DE L'ÈXTASI
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 12/12/2021 11:00
In the same way as works like Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder (Songs of Gurre), or Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies, The Poem of Ecstasy, by Alexander Scriabin, is a cornerstone of the radical musical transformation that took place during the early 20th century.
Scriabin's music feeds off a mystical and theosophical conception of the musical act, intimately linked to a correlation between sonic space, light and colour. While it is in piano music that the composer reaches the highest levels of abstraction, the five symphonic works that complete his oeuvre are foundational monuments of modern symphonic language. The Poem of Ecstasy is a song of praise to liberated action and energy, to the cosmos, to spirit and to eternal creation, to consciousness, and to ecstatic time.
Scriabin's music feeds off a mystical and theosophical conception of the musical act, intimately linked to a correlation between sonic space, light and colour. While it is in piano music that the composer reaches the highest levels of abstraction, the five symphonic works that complete his oeuvre are foundational monuments of modern symphonic language. The Poem of Ecstasy is a song of praise to liberated action and energy, to the cosmos, to spirit and to eternal creation, to consciousness, and to ecstatic time.
CAPRICCIO
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BANDA 2021/22
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 12/12/2021 11:30
The programme for this concert focuses on music of Italian influences. Two highpoints are Capriccio, a free fantasy written by New Zealand composer Janssen, one of today's leading composers for band, and Fantasy Variations by Barnes. According to the latter, this piece on the theme of Paganini's famous Caprice No. 24 is a work "appropriate for all members of the public[...]full of vitality, drama and even a touch of humour".
12
Dec
VEUS - COR INFANTIL AMICS DE LA UNIÓ
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 12/12/2021 19:00
Sunday, 12/12/2021 19:00
VEUS - COR INFANTIL AMICS DE LA UNIÓ
A Ceremony of Carols
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 12/12/2021 19:00
SIBELIUS 2
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 18/12/2021 19:00
More than a hundred years separate Jean Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2 from Liguria by the Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi, but both works emerge from the fascination with Italy of their composers. In the case of the latter, the impulse to compose the piece arises from the impression generated by the route of different paths near the Ligurian Sea that connect the small fishing villages nestled among the rocky cliffs.
SIBELIUS 2
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 19/12/2021 11:00
More than a hundred years separate Jean Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2 from Liguria by the Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi, but both works emerge from the fascination with Italy of their composers. In the case of the latter, the impulse to compose the piece arises from the impression generated by the route of different paths near the Ligurian Sea that connect the small fishing villages nestled among the rocky cliffs.
19
Dec
EL REGAL DE VIURE. CONCERT DE NADAL
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 19/12/2021 18:00
Sunday, 19/12/2021 18:00
EL REGAL DE VIURE. CONCERT DE NADAL
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 19/12/2021 18:00
How does one write a piece of music in celebration of life on earth? What texts should it be based on? When John Rutter composed The Gift of Life in 2015, he only found one historical reference that had any connection with his idea: The Creation by Haydn. As a result, with substantial freedom of form and content, he decided to divide the score into six movements, half based on sacred texts and the other half on his own verses.
30
Dec
L'ÒPERA I LES SEVES TRAGÈDIES
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Thursday, 30/12/2021 20:00
Thursday, 30/12/2021 20:00
L'ÒPERA I LES SEVES TRAGÈDIES
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Thursday, 30/12/2021 20:00
The Basque singer and actress Miren de Miguel presents a special New Year’s concert, an all-round show with staging, monologues, visual effects and eye-catching, varying costumes. With musical skill, an energetic voice and a touch of humour, De Miguel will perform the arias associated with some of the best-known protagonists of Italian opera, ranging from Cleopatra in the opera Giulio Cesare or Violetta Valery in La Traviata to Carmen or Madame Butterfly. All these female literary characters are as immortal as their personal tragedies. The Barcelona Symphony Band will be accompanying the soprano and performing some instrumental fragments, like "Elsa's procession" from Lohengrin by Wagner or the prelude to the second act of Un ballo in maschera (Masked Ball) by Verdi.
16
Jan
2022
EL JAZZ DE XOSTAKÒVITX
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 16/01/2022 11:30
Sunday, 16/01/2022 11:30
EL JAZZ DE XOSTAKÒVITX
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BANDA 2021/22
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 16/01/2022 11:30
Original works for band have a special sound all of their own and they make a particularly outstanding impact if they were written by great musicians, like Shostakovich or Schoenberg. The Barcelona Symphony Band will perform the second Suite for Variety Orchestra by the Russian composer. This includes the famous waltz that Kubrick featured in the film Eyes Wide Shut. They will also play Schoenberg's Theme and Variations, written when the composer had settled in the United States. Schoenberg's publisher commissioned him with a work for young music students and that is why it has a moving, gentle quality. Among the seven variations, it includes a nostalgic tribute to Vienna in the form of a waltz.
21
Jan
2022
ALLÒ QUE EM DIU L'AMOR
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 21/01/2022 19:00
Friday, 21/01/2022 19:00
ALLÒ QUE EM DIU L'AMOR
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 21/01/2022 19:00
From his refuge on the shores of Lake Atter, Mahler composed a significant part of his work, a vision that continues to delve into a complex, contradictory, wide and infinite continent about to burst open at the turn of the 20th century. “What Love Tells Me” is the last movement that makes up the Third Symphony, a colossal work composed in the late 19th century and a wonderfully fresh sound that, with the process of human redemption as its bedrock, feeds on images from classical mythology and nature to erect a solemn hymn to hope.
22
Jan
2022
ALLÒ QUE EM DIU L'AMOR
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 22/01/2022 19:00
Saturday, 22/01/2022 19:00
ALLÒ QUE EM DIU L'AMOR
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 22/01/2022 19:00
From his refuge on the shores of Lake Atter, Mahler composed a significant part of his work, a vision that continues to delve into a complex, contradictory, wide and infinite continent about to burst open at the turn of the 20th century. “What Love Tells Me” is the last movement that makes up the Third Symphony, a colossal work composed in the late 19th century and a wonderfully fresh sound that, with the process of human redemption as its bedrock, feeds on images from classical mythology and nature to erect a solemn hymn to hope.
25
Jan
2022
ESMUC JAZZ PROJECT
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Tuesday, 25/01/2022 20:00
Tuesday, 25/01/2022 20:00
ESMUC JAZZ PROJECT
Noves Visions. 20è Aniversari de l'ESMUC
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Tuesday, 25/01/2022 20:00
28
Jan
2022
SONATES DE GARRETA I GERHARD
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 28/01/2022 19:00
Friday, 28/01/2022 19:00
SONATES DE GARRETA I GERHARD
ROMAIN GARIOUD, DANIEL BLANCH
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 28/01/2022 19:00
29
Jan
2022
SCHÉHÉREZADE
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 29/01/2022 19:00
Saturday, 29/01/2022 19:00
SCHÉHÉREZADE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 29/01/2022 19:00
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov evokes the universe of the collection of tales The Thousand and One Nights in Scheherazade, music that falls partway between a programmatic symphony and a symphonic poem. Without confining himself to a background text that limits the possibilities of interpretation, Rimsky-Korsakov resorts to the impression caused by Scheherazade’s nocturnal narratives on Sultan Shahriar to compose a masterpiece of orchestration and one of the most famous pieces of Russian music. Transparent and colourful, this music recreates a fanciful and enchanting Oriental worldview.
29
Jan
2022
MIQUEL SERRA I AMICS
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 29/01/2022 21:00
Saturday, 29/01/2022 21:00
MIQUEL SERRA I AMICS
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 29/01/2022 21:00
SCHÉHÉREZADE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 30/01/2022 11:00
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov evokes the universe of the collection of tales The Thousand and One Nights in Scheherazade, music that falls partway between a programmatic symphony and a symphonic poem. Without confining himself to a background text that limits the possibilities of interpretation, Rimsky-Korsakov resorts to the impression caused by Scheherazade’s nocturnal narratives on Sultan Shahriar to compose a masterpiece of orchestration and one of the most famous pieces of Russian music. Transparent and colourful, this music recreates a fanciful and enchanting Oriental worldview.
30
Jan
2022
EL CONCERT DE VIOLONCEL D'ELGAR
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 30/01/2022 18:00
Sunday, 30/01/2022 18:00
EL CONCERT DE VIOLONCEL D'ELGAR
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 30/01/2022 18:00
Bernat Vivancos presents a world premiere, and Asier Polo–one of today's finest cellists–performs Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto, two of the highpoints of this programme. Organis Aurea are verses from Goigs a Nostra Dona by Joan Brudieu, one of Catalonia's most outstanding 16th century composers. Vivanco's idea is to equate the symphony band with an organ, based on the similarity in how sound is produced by the band's instruments and by the pipes of the 'king of sacred music'.
LA PASSIONE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 5/02/2022 19:00
Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony no. 49, known as La passione, is one of the most representative works of the composer’s Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) period, characterised by intense and vigorous expressiveness. The symphony has a structure that follows the model of the Baroque sonata da chiesa, four movements in the same key headed by a slow time signature with a bleak and elegiac character.
LA PASSIONE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 6/02/2022 11:00
Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony no. 49, known as La passione, is one of the most representative works of the composer’s Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) period, characterised by intense and vigorous expressiveness. The symphony has a structure that follows the model of the Baroque sonata da chiesa, four movements in the same key headed by a slow time signature with a bleak and elegiac character.
HAMLET
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BANDA 2021/22
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 6/02/2022 11:30
In 1876, Modest Tchaikovsky urged his brother to compose a score based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, a drama that reminds us what is most important in human life. It seemed like a good idea to Pyotr Ilyich, but he just jotted down a few draft ideas. Years later, Duchess Pavlovna planned a charity gala at the Mariinsky Theatre at which the third act of Hamlet would be performed, and actor Lucien Guitry asked the composer to write some music for the occasion. The gala was cancelled, but Tchaikovsky still wrote Fantasy Overture, which was performed in November 1888. Reflecting Hamlet by Fioravanti is a contemporary vision of this classic.
11
Feb
2022
LA CONSAGRACIÓ DE LA PRIMAVERA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 11/02/2022 19:00
Friday, 11/02/2022 19:00
LA CONSAGRACIÓ DE LA PRIMAVERA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 11/02/2022 19:00
Eric Lu's debut with the OBC as part of the Festival Emergents presents the Piano Concerto op. 54 by Robert Schumann. This work constitutes a transcendent change in the conception of the concert for solo instrument and orchestra throughout the 19th century: Schumann changes the conception of the concerto understood as a pretext for the virtuoso exhibition of the soloist to a total and full integration between soloist and the orchestra, in the construction of a symphony with a soloist.
12
Feb
2022
LA CONSAGRACIÓ DE LA PRIMAVERA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 12/02/2022 19:00
Saturday, 12/02/2022 19:00
LA CONSAGRACIÓ DE LA PRIMAVERA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 12/02/2022 19:00
Eric Lu's debut with the OBC as part of the Festival Emergents presents the Piano Concerto op. 54 by Robert Schumann. This work constitutes a transcendent change in the conception of the concert for solo instrument and orchestra throughout the 19th century: Schumann changes the conception of the concerto understood as a pretext for the virtuoso exhibition of the soloist to a total and full integration between soloist and the orchestra, in the construction of a symphony with a soloist.
13
Feb
2022
ROMEU I JULIETA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/02/2022 18:00
Sunday, 13/02/2022 18:00
ROMEU I JULIETA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/02/2022 18:00
Since this tragedy by Shakespeare was first written, Romeo and Juliet's impossible love has continued to be a quintessential artistic theme. Written in 1597, it is never out of date. When Sergei Prokofiev was commissioned with a ballet on the theme, he thought about giving it a happy ending; an idea that he finally rejected so as to remain true to the original. Premiered in Brno in 1938 and Leningrad in 1940, the ballet has become one of the major Soviet works featured in international repertoires. Between 1936 and 1937, the two suites were immediately scheduled to be performed throughout the world, even before the ballet.
23
Feb
2022
ENRIC MONTEFUSCO - COROS DE MEDIANOCHE
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Wednesday, 23/02/2022 21:00
Wednesday, 23/02/2022 21:00
ENRIC MONTEFUSCO - COROS DE MEDIANOCHE
Niño de Elche, Maria Arnal, Nacho Vegas, Albert Pla
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Wednesday, 23/02/2022 21:00
26
Feb
2022
BEL CANTO
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 26/02/2022 19:30
Saturday, 26/02/2022 19:30
BEL CANTO
Plus-Minus Ensemble, Juliet fraser
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 26/02/2022 19:30
26
Feb
2022
CANÇONS OBLIDADES.PEP BOTIFARRA & PAU CHÁFER
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 26/02/2022 20:00
Saturday, 26/02/2022 20:00
CANÇONS OBLIDADES.PEP BOTIFARRA & PAU CHÁFER
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 26/02/2022 20:00
Pep Gimeno “Botifarra” grew up in Vall d'Albaida listening to the songs of his grandparents, in particular those of uela Otilia de Benicàssim, and, at a very young age, he became interested in oral traditions. With the group Al Tall as his reference, in a context in which use of the Valencian language and other liberties were both being regained, Botifarra began to build an artistic career based on the revival of traditional local music. In recognition of his efforts, he was awarded the Medal for Cultural Merit by the Valencia Regional Government and Medal of Honour by the Valencia Ministry for Culture.
27
Feb
2022
TRIOS DE BRAHMS I SCHUMANN
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 27/02/2022 19:00
Sunday, 27/02/2022 19:00
TRIOS DE BRAHMS I SCHUMANN
TRIO BENEDETTI, ELSCHENBROICH, GRYNYUK
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 27/02/2022 19:00
3
Mar
2022
AMADIGI DI GAULA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Thursday, 3/03/2022 19:00
Thursday, 3/03/2022 19:00
AMADIGI DI GAULA
VESPRES D'ARNADÍ, X.SABATA, N. RIAL
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Thursday, 3/03/2022 19:00
Händel is one of the great opera composers of all time, with a perfect command of dynamism and theatrical rhythm (as well as his operas, his oratorios are another clear example of this). Amadigi di Gaula is based on the Spanish chivalric novel of the same name and it was a huge success from the moment it was premiered. On the one hand, it features two lovers (Princess Oriana and the hero Amadigi) and, on the other, two characters consumed with envy (Melissa and Dardano). To give a brief summary, the two lovers find themselves subjected to a rollercoaster of passions and torments until, finally, they discover the joys of requited love. The opera has a superb cast and accompanying musicians, with Núria Rial and Xavier Sabata, Sabina Puértolas and Katarina Bradić, Rafael Quirant and Vespres d'Arnadí, and conductor Dani Espasa.
4
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 4/03/2022 19:00
Friday, 4/03/2022 19:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 4/03/2022 19:00
Sergei Rachmaninoff stands as the culmination of the Russian symphonic tradition. An extraordinary pianist, conductor and composer, his music draws directly from the most genuinely romantic universe of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Frédéric Chopin, in a sublimation of form in the service of spontaneity and expression. Rachmaninoff’s work is sentimental, refined and elegant, and shows an equal fascination with gypsy music and Russian folklore.
5
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 5/03/2022 19:00
Saturday, 5/03/2022 19:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 5/03/2022 19:00
Sergei Rachmaninoff stands as the culmination of the Russian symphonic tradition. An extraordinary pianist, conductor and composer, his music draws directly from the most genuinely romantic universe of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Frédéric Chopin, in a sublimation of form in the service of spontaneity and expression. Rachmaninoff’s work is sentimental, refined and elegant, and shows an equal fascination with gypsy music and Russian folklore.
6
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:00
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV I
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:00
Sergei Rachmaninoff stands as the culmination of the Russian symphonic tradition. An extraordinary pianist, conductor and composer, his music draws directly from the most genuinely romantic universe of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Frédéric Chopin, in a sublimation of form in the service of spontaneity and expression. Rachmaninoff’s work is sentimental, refined and elegant, and shows an equal fascination with gypsy music and Russian folklore.
6
Mar
2022
TRISTANY I ISOLDA
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:30
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:30
TRISTANY I ISOLDA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BANDA 2021/22
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 6/03/2022 11:30
11
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 11/03/2022 19:00
Friday, 11/03/2022 19:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 11/03/2022 19:00
This concert closes the cycle dedicated to the last of the symphonists of the great Russian tradition. Under the influence of the piano concertos of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Frédéric Chopin and Edvard Grieg, and with the intention of demonstrating an extraordinary technical brilliance within the reach of the composer’s interpretive abilities, the Piano Concerto no. 1 is one of his prime works. Dissatisfied with his effort — a characteristic of a composer who was just beginning to write — he completely revised it in 1917 and in doing so achieved the form in which it is performed today.
12
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 12/03/2022 19:00
Saturday, 12/03/2022 19:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 12/03/2022 19:00
This concert closes the cycle dedicated to the last of the symphonists of the great Russian tradition. Under the influence of the piano concertos of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Frédéric Chopin and Edvard Grieg, and with the intention of demonstrating an extraordinary technical brilliance within the reach of the composer’s interpretive abilities, the Piano Concerto no. 1 is one of his prime works. Dissatisfied with his effort — a characteristic of a composer who was just beginning to write — he completely revised it in 1917 and in doing so achieved the form in which it is performed today.
13
Mar
2022
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/03/2022 11:00
Sunday, 13/03/2022 11:00
FESTIVAL RAKHMÀNINOV II
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/03/2022 11:00
This concert closes the cycle dedicated to the last of the symphonists of the great Russian tradition. Under the influence of the piano concertos of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Frédéric Chopin and Edvard Grieg, and with the intention of demonstrating an extraordinary technical brilliance within the reach of the composer’s interpretive abilities, the Piano Concerto no. 1 is one of his prime works. Dissatisfied with his effort — a characteristic of a composer who was just beginning to write — he completely revised it in 1917 and in doing so achieved the form in which it is performed today.
13
Mar
2022
RETRAT D'ARTISTA. PHILIP SPARKE
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/03/2022 18:00
Sunday, 13/03/2022 18:00
RETRAT D'ARTISTA. PHILIP SPARKE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 13/03/2022 18:00
Philip Sparke, one of the world's leading band composers and conductors, is the focus of this season's Retrat d’Artista. The commissioned work Hymn at Twilight is, unarguably, one of the star attractions of the programme, in addition to Symphony No. 2, dedicated to Savannah, the US city in the state of Georgia that has fascinated the musician ever since he first visited it.
15
Mar
2022
JANINE JANSEN & DENIS KOZHUKHIN
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Tuesday, 15/03/2022 19:00
Tuesday, 15/03/2022 19:00
JANINE JANSEN & DENIS KOZHUKHIN
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Tuesday, 15/03/2022 19:00
DON QUIXOTE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 18/03/2022 19:00
Richard Strauss draws on the misadventures of Don Quixote to compose a symphonic poem in the form of variations for cello, viola and orchestra. The composer uses the cello as a representation of Don Quixote, while the viola (and occasionally the bass clarinet and tuba) expresses the character of Sancho Panza. Strauss was a composer fascinated by the figure of a hero and his musical embodiment from philosophical and literary references, as evidenced by works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Hero’s Life or Don Quixote. The composer’s identification with the hero is a constant throughout his production, and the processes of transformation and victorious overcoming are the structural background to much of his music. To achieve this synthesis with the Nietzschean superman, Strauss embraces every orchestral resource imaginable to broaden the threshold of what is possible and generate an instrument in the service of mankind’s unstoppable progress.
18
Mar
2022
FRED FIRTH TRIO
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 18/03/2022 20:00
Friday, 18/03/2022 20:00
FRED FIRTH TRIO
ROAD
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 18/03/2022 20:00
DON QUIXOTE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 19/03/2022 19:00
Richard Strauss draws on the misadventures of Don Quixote to compose a symphonic poem in the form of variations for cello, viola and orchestra. The composer uses the cello as a representation of Don Quixote, while the viola (and occasionally the bass clarinet and tuba) expresses the character of Sancho Panza. Strauss was a composer fascinated by the figure of a hero and his musical embodiment from philosophical and literary references, as evidenced by works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Hero’s Life or Don Quixote. The composer’s identification with the hero is a constant throughout his production, and the processes of transformation and victorious overcoming are the structural background to much of his music. To achieve this synthesis with the Nietzschean superman, Strauss embraces every orchestral resource imaginable to broaden the threshold of what is possible and generate an instrument in the service of mankind’s unstoppable progress.
DON QUIXOTE
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 20/03/2022 11:00
Richard Strauss draws on the misadventures of Don Quixote to compose a symphonic poem in the form of variations for cello, viola and orchestra. The composer uses the cello as a representation of Don Quixote, while the viola (and occasionally the bass clarinet and tuba) expresses the character of Sancho Panza. Strauss was a composer fascinated by the figure of a hero and his musical embodiment from philosophical and literary references, as evidenced by works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Hero’s Life or Don Quixote. The composer’s identification with the hero is a constant throughout his production, and the processes of transformation and victorious overcoming are the structural background to much of his music. To achieve this synthesis with the Nietzschean superman, Strauss embraces every orchestral resource imaginable to broaden the threshold of what is possible and generate an instrument in the service of mankind’s unstoppable progress.
LA PESTA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 25/03/2022 19:00
The cantata The Plague is based on the novel of the same name by Albert Camus, an author with whom Robert Gerhard always showed a great affinity. In the words of the composer, “The Plague is a fable and, as in all fables, animals stand in for humans. This is not a tale of rats, but of humans. It is a tale of our time. However, it cannot be a story with a victorious ending, but rather an eternal defeat.” With music of extraordinary intensity and with the same absolute validity and topicality as the novel by Camus, The Plague is one of the composer’s greatest works, the synthesis of the musical and human journey throughout a whole life by the most internationally-renowned Catalan composer.
25
Mar
2022
AMOR ODI RADIOSHOW
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 25/03/2022 21:00
Friday, 25/03/2022 21:00
AMOR ODI RADIOSHOW
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Friday, 25/03/2022 21:00
LA PESTA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 26/03/2022 19:00
The cantata The Plague is based on the novel of the same name by Albert Camus, an author with whom Robert Gerhard always showed a great affinity. In the words of the composer, “The Plague is a fable and, as in all fables, animals stand in for humans. This is not a tale of rats, but of humans. It is a tale of our time. However, it cannot be a story with a victorious ending, but rather an eternal defeat.” With music of extraordinary intensity and with the same absolute validity and topicality as the novel by Camus, The Plague is one of the composer’s greatest works, the synthesis of the musical and human journey throughout a whole life by the most internationally-renowned Catalan composer.
DON JOAN
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 27/03/2022 18:00
In 1927, the Barcelona Symphony Band travelled to Frankfurt to take part in the International Music Exhibition, inaugurated on 11 June. Conducted by Joan Lamote de Grignon, it performed eight concerts, featuring a total of 26 different works, mostly by Catalan and Spanish composers. At the last concert, the well-known composer and orchestral conductor, Richard Strauss, led the band in a performance of his symphonic poem Don Juan, a work transcribed by Lamote de Grignon for the occasion. That same version, revised by José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, is the star feature of this concert.
30
Mar
2022
TRIOS DE SCHUBERT I XOSTAKÓVITX
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 30/03/2022 19:00
Wednesday, 30/03/2022 19:00
TRIOS DE SCHUBERT I XOSTAKÓVITX
AMATIS TRIO
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 30/03/2022 19:00
BRAHMS 4
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 1/04/2022 19:00
Brahms waited until he reached full creative maturity to begin his four symphonies, true monuments of 19th-century symphonic language. Symphony no. 4, 1885, is the composer’s farewell to the symphonic genre and the culmination of a tradition begun by Haydn and Beethoven. The third major descending interval that heads the initial movement becomes a structural and motivic foundation throughout the piece, while the final movement takes the model of the Baroque chaconnes, with a descending ostinato taken from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 150 and elaborated along successive variations until climaxing in an ending soaked in the initial tragic pathos.
BRAHMS 4
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 2/04/2022 19:00
Brahms waited until he reached full creative maturity to begin his four symphonies, true monuments of 19th-century symphonic language. Symphony no. 4, 1885, is the composer’s farewell to the symphonic genre and the culmination of a tradition begun by Haydn and Beethoven. The third major descending interval that heads the initial movement becomes a structural and motivic foundation throughout the piece, while the final movement takes the model of the Baroque chaconnes, with a descending ostinato taken from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 150 and elaborated along successive variations until climaxing in an ending soaked in the initial tragic pathos.
3
Apr
2022
LA NIT DE SANT JOAN
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 3/04/2022 11:30
Sunday, 3/04/2022 11:30
LA NIT DE SANT JOAN
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BANDA 2021/22
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Sunday, 3/04/2022 11:30
Clarinettist Joan Estellés and bassoon-player Daniel Ortuño will perform the solos of the Duett-Concertino by Richard Strauss. The idea of turning the spotlight on certain members of the Barcelona Symphony Band, put into practice at this concert and previous ones, is a very interesting one. This work by Strauss, in brilliant, crystalline, neo-Classical style, is one of the last that he composed. The German composer wrote to his publisher, joking that the last movement was a dance between a princess and a grotesque creature that finally turned into a prince.
5
Apr
2022
PRELUDIS DE RAKHMÀNINOV
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Tuesday, 5/04/2022 19:00
Tuesday, 5/04/2022 19:00
PRELUDIS DE RAKHMÀNINOV
NIKOLAI LUGANSKY
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Tuesday, 5/04/2022 19:00
6
Apr
2022
48 VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 6/04/2022 20:00
Wednesday, 6/04/2022 20:00
48 VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS
Mark Knoop & Roderick Chadwick
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 6/04/2022 20:00
9
Apr
2022
SIMFONIA FANTÀSTICA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 9/04/2022 19:00
Saturday, 9/04/2022 19:00
SIMFONIA FANTÀSTICA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 9/04/2022 19:00
The evocation of Spanish imaginary from afar, by Robert Gerhard, and the transformation of French symphonic language in the nineteenth century are the main features of this programme. Gerhard’s Dances from Don Quixote is a suite in three parts, drawn from the ballet Don Quixote which the composer wrote in 1940 after going into exile in England because of the Spanish Civil War. On this occasion, as a way of introducing himself to the English musical establishment, Gerhard turned to Cervantes’ immortal classic, synthesising figures from the Spanish tradition with a very personal use of the twelve-tone technique. The characters are not portrayed via leitmotifs or recurring themes but through distinctive serialist sequences.
10
Apr
2022
SIMFONIA FANTÀSTICA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 10/04/2022 11:00
Sunday, 10/04/2022 11:00
SIMFONIA FANTÀSTICA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 10/04/2022 11:00
The evocation of Spanish imaginary from afar, by Robert Gerhard, and the transformation of French symphonic language in the nineteenth century are the main features of this programme. Gerhard’s Dances from Don Quixote is a suite in three parts, drawn from the ballet Don Quixote which the composer wrote in 1940 after going into exile in England because of the Spanish Civil War. On this occasion, as a way of introducing himself to the English musical establishment, Gerhard turned to Cervantes’ immortal classic, synthesising figures from the Spanish tradition with a very personal use of the twelve-tone technique. The characters are not portrayed via leitmotifs or recurring themes but through distinctive serialist sequences.
10
Apr
2022
CANÇÓ D'AMOR I DE GUERRA
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 10/04/2022 18:00
Sunday, 10/04/2022 18:00
CANÇÓ D'AMOR I DE GUERRA
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 10/04/2022 18:00
Who has not heard the sardana - En el Vallespir, sung by Francina and the children's choir in the zarzuela Cançó d’amor i de guerra and also performed by singers as wide-ranging as Montserrat Caballé and Salomé? And what about Pirineu, tes blanques comes, the earnest, moving aria by Eloi and the choir of soldiers that became so popular over the course of a century? The zarzuela by Martínez Valls, with a libretto by Lluís Capdevila and Víctor Mora, has become an emblematic work, and some fragments have gone beyond the confines of theatres to become symbols of Catalan music.
11
Apr
2022
ISRAEL FERNÁNDEZ & DIEGO DEL MORAO
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Monday, 11/04/2022 21:00
Monday, 11/04/2022 21:00
ISRAEL FERNÁNDEZ & DIEGO DEL MORAO
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Monday, 11/04/2022 21:00
20
Apr
2022
JERUSALEM ABANDONADA
*BASÍLICA SANTA MARIA DEL PI
Wednesday, 20/04/2022 19:00
Wednesday, 20/04/2022 19:00
JERUSALEM ABANDONADA
LA GRANDE CHAPELLE - FESTIVAL LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*BASÍLICA SANTA MARIA DEL PI
Wednesday, 20/04/2022 19:00
The 16th and 17th centuries marked a highpoint in music in the Iberian Peninsula during the period of religious polyphony. This concert by La Grande Chapelle, conducted by Albert Recasens, features work by four of the finest exponents of this kind of music (which this splendid ensemble spearheads). They are the immortal Tomás Luis de Victoria and his contemporaries Alonso Lobo (a disciple of Francisco Guerrero, another leading name in Hispanic polyphony), Pedro Riumonte (who travelled from his home town of Zaragoza to Brussels, where he settled and became a kapellmeister) and the Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso. Although this is a style of music that owes much to Palestrina's powerful influences, its melancholic laments float mystically in the air, remaining on high, like a waft of incense or something that has issued forth from the strange colours and shapes of an El Greco painting.
22
Apr
2022
LACHRIMAE, PLANYS I FOLLIES
*BASÍLICA SANTA MARIA DEL PI
Friday, 22/04/2022 19:00
Friday, 22/04/2022 19:00
LACHRIMAE, PLANYS I FOLLIES
JORDI SAVALL HESPÈRION XXI-FESTIVAL LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*BASÍLICA SANTA MARIA DEL PI
Friday, 22/04/2022 19:00
Tears, laments and the sounds of insanity are brought to us by Jordi Savall and some of his most loyal, celebrated musicians–all leading references in their chosen instruments–, with Xavier Díaz-Latorre on the guitar and theorbo, Andrew Lawrence King on the baroque harp and Pedro Esteban as percussionist. The audience will revel in this display of creativity and inventiveness in music conceived as a living, open phenomenon, inextricably linked to popular music. The concert will also introduce the audience to different traditions and approaches to the art of variation and improvisation. It focuses on the period from the 16th to the 18th centuries, ranging from the famous John Dowland and his English backdrops through Elizabethan Anthony Holborne or Scottish soldier-musician Tobias Hume to our own regions, the Kingdoms of Naples and Spain, and the baroque France and Germany of the great viol player, Marin Marais, and Johan Jakob Froberger, whose work stands out for its fascinating stylistic opulence.
26
Apr
2022
VENEZ, CHÈRE OMBRE
*CAPELLA SANTA ÀGATA
Tuesday, 26/04/2022 19:00
Tuesday, 26/04/2022 19:00
VENEZ, CHÈRE OMBRE
LE CONSORT & E.DE NEGRI -FESTIVAL LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*CAPELLA SANTA ÀGATA
Tuesday, 26/04/2022 19:00
Soprano Emmanuelle de Negri and Le Consort, conducted by promising young harpsichordist Justin Taylor, invite us to enjoy the delicate, poetic world of French baroque cantatas, a genre that reached its highpoint in the 18th century. The programme is made up of several highly compact pieces, some lasting for just a few minutes. Despite this, they have a powerful dramatic force, expressing sentiments like love, heartbreak, tenderness, vengeance, happiness or tragedy, always overlaid by a sweet, refined, typically French sense of melancholy. In addition to the music of two great names in chamber music, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, we will also be able to hear the far less well-known music of Louis-Antoine Lefebvre (whose exquisite opening aria of the "cantatille" Les regrets was chosen for the title of this programme) and the instrumental music of Jean-François Dandrieu.
27
Apr
2022
EL AMOR BRUJO
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Wednesday, 27/04/2022 19:00
Wednesday, 27/04/2022 19:00
EL AMOR BRUJO
JONC
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Wednesday, 27/04/2022 19:00
El amor brujo (The bewitched love), by Manuel de Falla, is one of the most important works in the Spanish repertoire, with the famous Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual fire dance) and Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of wildfire). Initially conceived as an Andalusian pantomime for chamber ensemble and solo female singer, or cantaora — commissioned by the dancer, or bailaora, Pastora Imperio — and later transformed into a ballet in symphonic version, it tells the story of the torment of the gypsy Candelas by the ghost of her former lover.
28
Apr
2022
LA MORT I LA DONZELLA
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
LA MORT I LA DONZELLA
QUATUOR HANSON - QUARTOR AROD
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
Death is a floating and ominous presence in Schubert’s work. His lied Das Tod und der Mädchen (Death and the Maiden) takes a poem by the German Matthias Claudius based on a quite common theme in European art since the Renaissance: the personified image of death attacking, kidnapping, or threatening a young virginal-looking maiden. The main theme of this song was the seed material for one of the Viennese composer’s best-known string quartets. Schubert returned in 1820 to composing quartets, a genre he had not dedicated time to in many years, and the results were extraordinary.
28
Apr
2022
GESUALDO: MADRIGALI
*CAPELLA SANTA ÀGATA
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
GESUALDO: MADRIGALI
EXAUDI - FESTIVAL LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*CAPELLA SANTA ÀGATA
Thursday, 28/04/2022 19:00
The collection of madrigals written by controversial Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo features some of the most fascinating examples of this genre and perhaps the only ones on a par with those of Claudio Monteverdi. To bring to life each of the sentiments expressed in the poems, the composer boldly resorted to numerous types of modulation (the more unusual and experimental, the better), combined with the roughest, bitterest chromaticism and the most striking, captivating dissonance. We will listen to a selection from the Fifth and Sixth Book, both of which were written during the final years of his life and the second of which was published posthumously. In addition to this selection from the Prince of Venosa's two books, works will be played by Michael Finnissy, a fellow countryman of Exaudi, and by Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos, with his six-voice motet Nigra es, pulchra sum. Interwoven in the latter are the texts Nigra sum and Pulchra es from the Song of Songs, using different compositional and vocal techniques, such as non-tempered scales and overtone singing.
30
Apr
2022
MONADOLOGIE XVIII
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 30/04/2022 20:00
Saturday, 30/04/2022 20:00
MONADOLOGIE XVIII
Mark Knoop & Roderick Chadwick
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Saturday, 30/04/2022 20:00
CRUDO AMOR
FORMA ANTIQVA & MENA, BOIX-FEST. LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*MONESTIR DE SANT PAU
Sunday, 1/05/2022 19:00
The star features of this programme are the refined, sensual Duetti da camera for soprano and contralto by multifaceted composer Agostino Steffani (also a singer, diplomat, vicar and even bishop). These duets are rather like profane cantatas, with a rich use of counterpoint–a technique already habitually used between two violins (or other high instruments) in three-instrument sonatas, based on varying different structures. These works call for consummate vocal skills, combined with a high degree of sensitivity so that the audience empathises with the feelings and emotions expressed in the texts, with priority being given to theatrical techniques. It should not be forgotten that Steffani's music served as a model and reference for Händel's operas. Soprano Eugenia Boix and countertenor Carlos Mena will be performing, accompanied by Forma Antiqva, conducted by Aarón Zapico at the harpsichord.
5
May
2022
GESUALDO: TENEBRAE RESPONSORIA
*MONESTIR DE SANT PAU
Thursday, 5/05/2022 19:00
Thursday, 5/05/2022 19:00
GESUALDO: TENEBRAE RESPONSORIA
GRAINDELAVOIX - FESTIVAL LLUMS D'ANTIGA
*MONESTIR DE SANT PAU
Thursday, 5/05/2022 19:00
Based in the Flemish city of Antwerp and conducted by its founder, Björn Schmelzer, Graindelavoix is, unarguably, one of the finest and most interesting vocal ensembles dedicated to polyphony. Its programme for the concert includes the eloquent testament Tenebrae Responsoria by Carlo Gesualdo, a genius in musical chiaroscuro and shade, melancholic sentiments, extreme chromatic effects, and striking dissonance. The enigmatic, sanguinary Prince of Venosa wrote the motets also known as Lliçons de tenebres (published in 1611) for the church services of the Holy Week's last three days (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday). The audience will also be able to enjoy the premier of Miserere mei Deus by Joan Magrané, a composer who has made polyphony one of the cornerstones and main hallmarks of his music.
MISSA SOLEMNIS
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 6/05/2022 19:00
Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, composed at the same time as his Ninth Symphony, is one of the composer’s most fascinating works and the culmination of his creative maturity. Rarely performed in public due to the difficulty of the score and the extensive resources required for its execution, it is a unique composition in the oeuvre of the genius from Bonn because of the synthesis of elements borrowed from both Renaissance madrigals and the classical tradition with innovations from the composer’s late musical period.
7
May
2022
MISSA SOLEMNIS
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 7/05/2022 19:00
Saturday, 7/05/2022 19:00
MISSA SOLEMNIS
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 7/05/2022 19:00
Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, composed at the same time as his Ninth Symphony, is one of the composer’s most fascinating works and the culmination of his creative maturity. Rarely performed in public due to the difficulty of the score and the extensive resources required for its execution, it is a unique composition in the oeuvre of the genius from Bonn because of the synthesis of elements borrowed from both Renaissance madrigals and the classical tradition with innovations from the composer’s late musical period.
MISSA SOLEMNIS
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 8/05/2022 11:00
Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, composed at the same time as his Ninth Symphony, is one of the composer’s most fascinating works and the culmination of his creative maturity. Rarely performed in public due to the difficulty of the score and the extensive resources required for its execution, it is a unique composition in the oeuvre of the genius from Bonn because of the synthesis of elements borrowed from both Renaissance madrigals and the classical tradition with innovations from the composer’s late musical period.
CARMEN
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 8/05/2022 18:00
Carmen is all about a femme fatale, and the themes of love, envy, sensuality and death. The novel by Prosper Mérimée and, above all, the opera by Georges Bizet have immortalised these base passions in the form of art, encapsulating the essence of the most savage and unadulterated of feelings. Uruguayan composer José Serebrier adapted some of the best-known fragments of Bizet's Carmen for orchestra, like the legendary habanera “L'amour est une oiseau rebelle”, finishing with the brilliant finale from the “Danse bohème”, which opens the second act of the staged version of the opera.
10
May
2022
JORDI SAVALL. RÈQUIEM DE MOZART
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Tuesday, 10/05/2022 19:00
Tuesday, 10/05/2022 19:00
JORDI SAVALL. RÈQUIEM DE MOZART
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Tuesday, 10/05/2022 19:00
Jordi Savall, Le Concert de Nations and Capella Reial de Catalunya present two of Mozart's major religious works and, indeed, two of the most important of all Western music. They are also two of his most enigmatic works, given the well-known mysterious fact that they were not completed. The Salzburg genius seems to have composed the Great Mass in C minor K 427 (417a) by choice (that is, it was not a commission) on the occasion of his wedding to Constanze Weber. It is a severe work, true to his maestros, Bach and Händel, with moments of sublime, angelical beauty so typical of Mozart's music, such as Et incarnatus est for solo soprano. The Requiem in D minor K 626 is quite another story and the legend that surrounds it, which you can take as far as your flights of fantasy permit, is well known to all.
BRUCKNER 3
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 13/05/2022 19:00
Bruckner is the great symphonist of the last third of the 19th century. The spiritual and emotional depth of his music and the colossal magnitude of his symphonies are closely linked to his activity as an excellent improviser on the organ. It is from the timbral complexity of the so-called “king of instruments” that we can approach the overarching conception of Bruckner’s orchestra, a concept that provoked the contempt of the public and critics during the composer’s lifetime (only sincerely praised by Mahler and Wagner, staunch admirers and proponents of his work) and posthumous recognition throughout the 20th century.
BRUCKNER 3
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 14/05/2022 19:00
Bruckner is the great symphonist of the last third of the 19th century. The spiritual and emotional depth of his music and the colossal magnitude of his symphonies are closely linked to his activity as an excellent improviser on the organ. It is from the timbral complexity of the so-called “king of instruments” that we can approach the overarching conception of Bruckner’s orchestra, a concept that provoked the contempt of the public and critics during the composer’s lifetime (only sincerely praised by Mahler and Wagner, staunch admirers and proponents of his work) and posthumous recognition throughout the 20th century.
18
May
2022
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 18/05/2022 21:00
Wednesday, 18/05/2022 21:00
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
The Call Within
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Wednesday, 18/05/2022 21:00
19
May
2022
QUINTET DE SCHUBERT
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 19/05/2022 19:00
Thursday, 19/05/2022 19:00
QUINTET DE SCHUBERT
QUARTET CASALS & SANTIAGO CAÑÓN
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 19/05/2022 19:00
Two months before his death, Schubert wrote to his editor to offer him piano sonatas: The Swan Song series, and a string quintet. Probst’s response was to request more songs, and to completely ignore the extraordinary Quintet for Strings, the last chamber work - and the only one for this instrumental formation - by the Viennese composer. Schubert adds a second cello to the classical quartet instead of a second viola, a resource that Luigi Boccherini had also used. The emotional and dramatic intensity contrasts with the brilliance of the overall key of C major, which has been attributed to a gesture in homage to the admired Mozart and Beethoven, authors of string quintets in the same key.
BRUCKNER 7
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 20/05/2022 19:00
The OBC continues its journey through the music of the greatest symphonist of the last third of the 19th century, after the performance of the Third Symphony in the previous concert. The colossal magnitude of his ten symphonies was posthumously recognised as one of the greatest contributions to the Germanic orchestral tradition, with a profound and overarching language comparable to the sound worlds of Wagner and Mahler.
BRUCKNER 7
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 21/05/2022 19:00
The OBC continues its journey through the music of the greatest symphonist of the last third of the 19th century, after the performance of the Third Symphony in the previous concert. The colossal magnitude of his ten symphonies was posthumously recognised as one of the greatest contributions to the Germanic orchestral tradition, with a profound and overarching language comparable to the sound worlds of Wagner and Mahler.
BRUCKNER 7
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 22/05/2022 11:00
The OBC continues its journey through the music of the greatest symphonist of the last third of the 19th century, after the performance of the Third Symphony in the previous concert. The colossal magnitude of his ten symphonies was posthumously recognised as one of the greatest contributions to the Germanic orchestral tradition, with a profound and overarching language comparable to the sound worlds of Wagner and Mahler.
22
May
2022
WEST SIDE STORY
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 22/05/2022 18:00
Sunday, 22/05/2022 18:00
WEST SIDE STORY
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS BMB 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 22/05/2022 18:00
Tony and Maria are a 20th century Romeo and Juliet, and the Sharks and the Jets are the Capulets and the Montagues of New York's West Side. The 1957 Broadway production and its subsequent movie adaptation transformed West Side Story into an audio-visual reference point. Bernstein's music, which describes the action and the tragic events, is one of his most popular compositions. Its symphonic dances immediately take us back to 1950s Manhattan.
LA TRACE
Barcelona Clarinet Players
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Monday, 23/05/2022 19:30
RESSURRECCIÓ
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Friday, 27/05/2022 19:00
In the colossal Resurrection symphony, Gustav Mahler sets out from the vast orchestral ensemble used on Titan to broaden it with the introduction of the human voice, with the use of soloists and choir, a feature that would be characteristic of his later symphonies. It is also the first work in which Mahler uses texts from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder (The Youth’s Magic Horn: Old German Songs), a set of traditional German poems and songs compiled in 1805 which became an inexhaustible source of resources for his production.
RESURRECCIÓ
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Saturday, 28/05/2022 19:00
In the colossal Resurrection symphony, Gustav Mahler sets out from the vast orchestral ensemble used on Titan to broaden it with the introduction of the human voice, with the use of soloists and choir, a feature that would be characteristic of his later symphonies. It is also the first work in which Mahler uses texts from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder (The Youth’s Magic Horn: Old German Songs), a set of traditional German poems and songs compiled in 1805 which became an inexhaustible source of resources for his production.
RESSURRECCIÓ
TEMPORADA DE CONCERTS OBC 2021/22
SALA 1 - PAU CASALS
Sunday, 29/05/2022 11:00
In the colossal Resurrection symphony, Gustav Mahler sets out from the vast orchestral ensemble used on Titan to broaden it with the introduction of the human voice, with the use of soloists and choir, a feature that would be characteristic of his later symphonies. It is also the first work in which Mahler uses texts from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder (The Youth’s Magic Horn: Old German Songs), a set of traditional German poems and songs compiled in 1805 which became an inexhaustible source of resources for his production.
30
Jun
2022
FESTIVAL BACHCELONA
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 30/06/2022 19:30
Thursday, 30/06/2022 19:30
FESTIVAL BACHCELONA
Cantates amb Ton Koopman
SALA 2 - ORIOL MARTORELL
Thursday, 30/06/2022 19:30
This season, the soloists awarded a Salvat Bach grant and the Festival Bachcelona choir and consort will be conducted by legendary figure Ton Koopman. The audience will be able to enjoy two cantatas, in direct dialogue, by the virtuoso Leipzig kantor. They are Meine Seel erhebt den Herren BWV 10 (My soul now magnifies the Lord) and Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147 (The heart and mouth and deed and life), one of the most popular, best-known cantatas, mainly for the sparkling, radiant final chorale Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring). The two cantatas include trumpets among the instruments, adding a splendid, festive tone especially suited to the liturgical celebration of the Visitation, for which they were conceived and written.
