Concerts / Conciertos

El retorn d’una veu pianística al seu espai natural Hi ha intèrprets que, quan pugen a un escenari determinat, activem en nosaltres una mena de memòria col·lectiva: sabem que aquell lloc, aquella acústica i aquell artista formen un tot indissoluble. Alba Ventura i el Palau de la Música Catalana constitueixen un d’aquests binomis rars i fèrtils. La pianista barcelonina ha crescut musicalment i vitalment entre aquestes pedres modernistes, hi ha viscut molts dels seus primers èx

El pasado 17 de noviembre en el Auditorio de Barcelona, dentro de la 42 temporada de Ibercamera, la Orquesta Mozarteum Salzburg con Trevor Pinnock en la dirección y Julia Hagen como solista, nos ofrecieron un programa integrado por la Obertura “La Flauta Mágica” de Mozart, el Concierto para violoncelo en si menor Op 104 de A. Dvořák y la Sinfonía nº 5 en do menor de Beethoven. El concierto podemos decir que se inició tímidamente para ir creciendo en intensidad, la Obertura de

On November 13, 2025, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, led by its principal conductor Simone Young, presented a concert version of Richard Wagner's Siegfried to the Sydney audience. The Australian conductor, after establishing herself in Bayreuth and at La Scala as one of the leading contemporary Wagner interpreters, decided to bring a cast worthy of Bayreuth to the Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall. Young conducts with passion, composure, and supreme energy, giving her Wagner

Today, November 13, 2025, the Palau de la Música Catalana paid a profound tribute to one of the greatest baritones of all time: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His most worthy heir, Benjamin Appl, wove together an extraordinary program of carefully chosen pieces to illustrate the life of the great singer and multifaceted artist, as Appl himself demonstrated. Appl was accompanied by the South African-born pianist, James Baillieu. Bailieu is not a pianist, he is God. His hands don't

The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in Barcelona in full force, accompanied by Myung-Whun Chung, the newly appointed principal conductor of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan, and the extraordinary violinist Maxim Vengerov. They performed two fundamental monuments of Russian musical literature: Tchaikovsky's exquisitely romantic Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the piece that forever shattered the traditional conventions of harmony and symphonic music. T

Ayer el Palau de la Música Catalana tuvo el placer de presenciar un concierto de Martha Argerich, leyenda viva del piano, y su amigo Nelson Goerner, otro genio de las teclas. Todo empezó perfecto hasta que las autoridades catalanas decidieron avisar por notificación de emergencias en el momento que Argerich y Goerner tocaban La Valse de Ravel. Argerich, muy enfadada y nerviosa, paró el concierto y no entendía nada, porque cada vez sonaban más móviles y más fuerte. Ella que vi

The Ring ohne Worte , a creation by Lorin Maazel, arrived at the Berliner Philharmonie today, by the hand of Theodor Currentzis and his Utopia Orchestra. Wagner without words does not exist, because his music was born from words, and in the case of the Ring, the words began to take shape many years before the music, already in his youth in Dresden. But I believe that today, Wagner himself would have taken a train from Bayreuth to hear Currentzis's interpretation and his extra

Sir Bryan Terfel can still do it all. Yesterday his voice resonated once again in Monaco, embodying a magnificent and awe-inspiring Flying Dutchman. The Monte-Carlo Opera had the privilege yesterday of witnessing Richard Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer in a semi-staged version with extraordinary projections by Stefano Visconti. Senta was sung by Asmik Grigorian, who delivered an marvellous and highly dramatic Ballad of Senta. The legendary Albert Dohmen was Daland, and his W

Last Thursday, October 30th, Roberto Alagna, a living legend of opera, landed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, courtesy of Puccini. He gifted a completely devoted Barcelona audience with a recital dedicated entirely to the composer from Lucca. Me -Roberto- and Puccini: something very intimate and familiar, as he himself described the recital, speaking directly to the audience at the beginning, and continuing in this way throughout the evening, engaging in a continuous and very c

This Monday, October 27, the great Royal Philharmonic Orchestra arrived at the Palau de la Música Catalana with Vasily Petrenko as conductor. Petrenko knows how to extract a precise, methodical and poignant sound from any formation, but with the talent present in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, everything takes on an epic aspect. So much so that Albert Guinovart himself could hardly believe the sound that the RPO was able to extract from his "La Vida Secreta" Sonata. This i

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony is a monument to nature, an absolutely romantic analysis of all the elements that move the nature that surrounds us. Caspar David Friedrich did it with painting, Hölderlin did it with poetry and Beethoven did it with a very delicate orchestration and the construction of a symphony that is one of the most beautiful ever written. To the point that Wagner himself, in a way, pays homage to it in Siegfried's Rheinfahrt. Today the genius maestro Philippe

Georg Friedrich Händel was resurrected today and left Westminster Abbey to hear personally his new Oratorio in Barcelona: Theodor Currentzi's Oratorio. And Händel would have signed it, because Baroque and Händel are also freedom, much to the chagrin of today's Taliban of Baroque. In the history of musical performance, there is a moment that changed everything, with no back way: the birth of Theodor Currentzis and the subsequent creation of his soulmate, MusicAeterna. If we li