The Vienna Philharmonic was in Barcelona

The legendary orchestra and baritone Thomas Hampson shine in the Palau de la Música in a scheduled evening for a luxury cruise

Vienna Philharmonic

A curious and unusual evening. That such a legendary orchestra like the Vienna Philharmonic landed Thursday at the Palau de la Música from the boat ‘Mein Schiff 3’ to act for clients of a luxury cruise it is not something that happens too often. In its 170 years of history this is the fourth time that the components of the mythical formation traveling with some music lovers tourists have paid between 4,682 and 10,361 euros to share music on board activities and enjoy exclusive concerts in the land of such exquisite quality as that of Barcelona.

BRONZED EXPEDITIONARY

Half an hour before the start of the gala entrance to the ‘hall’ modernist building and the bar ‘foyer’ seething with agitation a thousand elegant and tanned expeditionary who had arrived in several buses after landing at seven in the afternoon, the Barcelona port from Toulon. The incessant flashing of flases their mobile phones, with photos to remember and also of the facade and sculptures of Jaume Plensa, denoting clearly that those who entered, admired the concert hall were not the usual fans the different programs of the institution.

Looks skyward enclosure and the muses and figures multiplied stage while the cameras were still operating at full capacity. The Legion of cruise passengers occupied the stalls and first floor of the enclosure. Part of the second was reserved for the Barcelona fans who had purchased tickets at prices between 30 and 60 euros after hearing the web of Palau that this concert was held. Many of them were surprised that it had not been announced because unaware that the purpose of the gala was to serve travelers ‘Mar & Music’ circuit had hired the room.

AMATEUR CLASSIC

Cruise customers of different nationalities, including Spaniards also exhibited their own behavior classical fans, scrupulously respecting pauses and silences. The bravos and applause dedicated to musicians and the great American baritone Thomas Hampson were always selective. some familiarity is appreciated with members of the orchestra, with whom they share life on the boat since May 5, attending rehearsals, chamber concerts and recitals with renowned singers, besides having enjoyed another gala at Florence, May 9, with the orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.

BRIGHT CONCERTINO

The training was presented at the Palau with fifty musicians to develop appropriate plans and no master plan. The responsibility for a success of the evening was given by the brilliant concertmaster Rainer Honeck and we must hasten to say that the sound of the majority rope was compact, accurate and deploying the naturalness of who dominates this repertoire, the ‘Symphony, number 5 ‘Schubert. The quality and crisp and noble timbre of Hampson shone in the ‘Gypsy Songs’ Dvorak, although the volume of the orchestra made him raise the vocal tone in a cycle that usually is interpreted with piano accompaniment or a chamber group. A tip with an ‘Lied’ Mahler completed his heroics.

Arrogance was the interpretation of the envelope ‘Transfigured Night’ Schoenberg, who moved us the emotional atmosphere of the moods and feelings of the poem by Richard Dehmel, which is inspired. A bis Mozart capped a great concert prologue of the event in Palau 100, on June 27, with Viennese training, this time directed by Daniele Gatti. Do not miss it.

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Othello in Barcelona

A new stage in the assembly incorporates a total of 85 beds

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A new production of Othello, opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi and the tenor Jose Cura in the title role, comes the next day 21 to the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with an impressive staging that plays a refugee camp and incorporating on stage a total of 85 beds. With this play, directed by Andreas Kriegenburg and the musical direction of Philippe Auguin, lyric institution Barcelona starts the year Shakespeare, who in February combine this piece with Rossini’s version, which will play Gregory Kunde in concert .

It is also planned that I Capuleti ei Montecchi, Bellini, based on Romeo and Juliet see in May and June with a scenic proposal Vincent Boussard and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza. The artistic director of the Liceu, Christina Scheppelmann, accompanied by Philippe Auguin, the Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho, representing Desdemona, and co-director of scene, Claudia Gotta, presented this afternoon the work, which has been framed in this year’s Shakespeare, right when they met 400 years of his death.

Gotta have revealed that, six years ago Kriegenburg started thinking about directing Othello, he saw the work the theme of war was essential and even influenced all relations that exist between the different characters, whether between Othello and Desdemona, whether between Othello and Iago. But as in the stage of a theater is more difficult to show a battle in the film, in the end he opted to “show the results of the war, including refugee camps,” a very topical issue today but not six years ago, when this project was conceived. “The reality has been behind the art,” he asserted Gotta.

On this occasion, therefore, Othello will move between the beds of a refugee camp, but “the story is the usual” with a protagonist who is an authoritarian, able to control every man, although shown unsafe in your life Private, which it will use Yago. Desdemona and Emilia become volunteers in the field and the rest of the characters will be confined there after the war.

Moreover, in this opera produced by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, they have a major role Cor Children Friends of the Unió de Granollers, led by Josep Vila and the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. In the case of children, Gotta commented that remain on stage throughout three acts because “Andreas Kriegenburg wanted to show how it can affect younger, both by good people as by the very poor” .

The soprano Ermonela Jaho, debuting as Desdemona, has acknowledged that, when it starts work and go to the children’s choir singing, he “shed tears because they make a very powerful work,” without forgetting that “music is a language universal, capable of transmitting the power of the most powerful or feelings like envy and love. ” The musical director, Philippe Auguin, stressed that Verdi organized everything “to maximize the intonation of the text,” seeking all “tempos and interventions of the orchestra were ideal to highlight the role of the word.”

In his view, Verdi gives also the impression of steady drive, “that nothing is ever to until the end of the play” and has made no secret that he has tried to “not destroy anything that Verdi wanted to express” . Further he believes that the Italian makes the public “with music from the brain of the characters,” while relaxing moments alternating with more romantic, “aware that two hours of climax can not endure.”

The work, which will run until the 7th of February, will have to José Cura as a protagonist in some functions, but also give voice to Othello Carl Tanner and Marc Heller, while Desdemona, plus Jaho, will be performed by Maria Katzarava. In the role of Yago they intervene Marco Vratogna and Ivan Cassio will Inverardi and Alexey Dolgov; Vicenç Esteve Madrid will Roderigo; in the role of Ludovico Roman Ialcic will complete the cast and Olesya Petrova (Emilia), Damian del Castillo (Montano) and Ivo Mischev and Gabriel Slides (heralds).

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The best movie soundtracks return to Barcelona Auditorium

The Film Symphony Orchestra will offer a second concert Sunday after selling out last | It will include classical melodies and Oscar nominated films this year

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Barcelona Auditorium Sunday refills of the best soundtracks of films, with the return to the Catalan capital of popular Film Symphony Orchestra (FSO). The success of his first visit in October, where they sold all the tickets on sale, has led to the formation to include in their 2015 tour a second stop in the Catalan capital. So far, only Valencia had taken over a concert tour of the state.

The founder of the Film Symphony Orchestra, Constantino Martinez-Orts, will run the show, with more than 80 musicians. Born in 2012, it is the only professional orchestra dedicated exclusively to play the best music of the big screen and now has more than 60,000 spectators. After celebrating the anniversary of Back to the Future with a projection-concert, they have returned to the road in a tour that offers some of the most popular titles in the history of cinema in traditional symphonic concert format.

The concert on Sunday, at 19:30, will combine melodies of iconic Hollywood with a special program dedicated to the Oscar awards this year, including the most prominent of the upcoming ceremony BSO, as Imitation Game (Alexander Desplat) and La Theory of Everything (Johann Johannsson), which will be performed live for the first time in Spain. Also sound scoop works composed for The Avengers Alan Silvestri; a spectacular suite of Independence Day by David Arnold; or futuristic music by Don Davis for Matrix, an absolute symphonic premiere in Spain.

Among the classics that will be enjoyed and recognized are also Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre), Out of Africa (Jon Barry) and ET The Extraterrestrial (John Williams), all Oscar-winning. There will also be songs that did not receive statuette but yes were nominated and have stuck in the collective memory, as Star Trek (Jerry Goldsmith), Jurassic Park (John Williams), Citizen Kane (Bernard Herman) and The Big Country (Jerome Moross ).

A variety of genres will be represented in the program, for example recall the romantic Legends of the Fall, in tribute to the late James Horner, retrieve the legendary military parade of The Bridge on the River Kwai Malcolm Arnold and delight the fans Star Wars saga with his famous soundtrack.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the Auditorium or on the website of the orchestra, cost between 25 and 60 euros. The tour serves as an introduction and launch of the first album of training, the best film music Volume I, recorded live during the inaugural concert of the tour 2014 in Las Ventas in Madrid with hundreds of musicians.

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Born Barcelona Symphony Youth Orchestra

The fifty musicians are between 16 and 23 years and will offer eight concerts during the year

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Carlos Checa is the artistic director of this grouping created with the aim to providing additional training in musical education that young people receive it through an orchestral practice. “Cities like New York, Paris, Rome, Berlin and London already had a young orchestra also believed that Barcelona deserved to have one,” said Checa.

To be part of the young musicians had to be submitted to a hearing. For many of them, this is an opportunity to enhance their career. “Apart from that you practice solo is also very important to do it in the orchestral and chamber music,” said Nuria Comorera, cellist.

To provide this training to young people, the orchestra has a team of specialist teachers and guest conductors like Josep Caballé Domenech, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Colorado Springs, United States, and general music director of the Orchestra of State Halle, Germany, and Salvador Brotons, renowned conductor and composer from Barcelona, ​​who currently holds the position of conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Barcelona Municipal Band, among others. “I saw teachers and directors who were part of the project and found it a very good initiative. Moreover, all that is gaining experience that can then be used in the professional world is very positive, “said Albert Torrebella violinist of the orchestra.

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