Palau de la Música Catalana

Yesterday, February 6, 2026, Philippe Herreweghe returned to the Palau de la Música Catalana with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and their performance of Beethoven's symphonies. The Parisian ensemble that Herreweghe conducts plays with period instruments, and their sound is so extraordinary that even Beethoven himself, seemingly frozen in the Palau de la Música, listened with rapt attention. First, they performed Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36. Herreweghe's conducting is

Weihnachtsoratorium , J.S.Ba ch Palau del Música Catalana, Barcelona 19.12.2025 Alison Lau, soprano | Martina Baroni, alto | David Fischer, tenor | Micha Matthäus, bass-baritone | Il Gardellino Orchestra | Cor de Cambra de l'Orfeó Català | Christoph Prégardien, conductor This past Friday, we experienced an evening of exceptional musical quality at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. Il Gardellino, with the Cor de Cambra del Orfeó Català and Christoph Prégardien at t

14.12.2025 Palau de la Música Catalana Franz Schubert Filharmonia Rune Bergmann, conductor Anna Fedorova, piano Last Sunday, the Palau de la Música was overcome with emotion by Anna Fedorova's performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Every chord, every note, every orchestral flourish... sent a shiver through our bodies, bringing tears to our eyes. Fedorova's touch is exquisitely delicate; her ivory hands seem to barely touch the keys, yet with immense gentleness sh

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