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The Music of Pau Casals

Gira per Catalunya – Centenari Orquestra Pau Casals


  • Dates
    27 i 28 de febrer 2021
  • Price
    From €28 to €30
  • Location
    Gira per Catalunya
  • Duration aprox.
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Repertoire

‎Joan Manén: Divertimento for orchestra, op. A-32 (1946) 18′
Robert Gerhard: Sis cançons populars catalanes (Six Catalan Popular Songs) (1928-31) 15’‎
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C major, Op. 21 (1800)26’‎

Artists

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC)‎

Anna Alàs i Jové, mezzo-soprano
Alexander Liebreich, conductor

Program

The first concert of the Pau Casals Orchestra was given in Barcelona In October 1920. That ensemble became the core of the current OBC and, until its dissolution due to the Civil War in 1936, was an internationally renowned orchestra under the direction of Maestro Casals. Conductors and composers such as Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Manuel de Falla were invited to conduct the orchestra.

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM NOTES HEREThis programme presents, as a tribute, a collection of works linked to the Pau Casals Orchestra. A significant part of Joan Manén’s work was premiered by this ensemble, although the Divertimento is of a later nature after the orchestra was disbanded. Robert Gerhard’s Sis cançons populars catalanes (Six Catalan Popular Songs) premiered under the author’s baton accompanied by soprano Conxita Badia, in 1931, at the Palau de la Música. Beethoven’s music was one of the pillars of the orchestra’s repertoire throughout its existence. Its first concert included Symphony no. 8, and the last, behind closed doors and without an audience due to the outbreak of the Civil War, the last movement of his Ninth Symphony, music that should have been used to inaugurate the 1936 Barcelona People’s Olympics.

The Music of Pau Casals

Gira per Catalunya – Centenari Orquestra Pau Casals


  • Dates
    27 i 28 de febrer 2021
  • Price
    From €28 to €30
  • Location
    Gira per Catalunya
  • Duration aprox.
Totes les sessions finalitzades
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