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This 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Juli Garreta, a "brilliant and deeply intuitive man" in the words of Pau Casals. His excellent Violin Concerto, premiered now a hundred years ago and performed live only three times – the last time twenty-four years ago – is one of his culminating works and a paradigmatic example of inventiveness overflowing from a musician with a clearly universalizing will. This broad vision of the compositional fact, in which the essence of the earth is taken from to project itself into the world through a permeabilization of Central European languages, was a common fact in the work of Juli Garreta and in that of other contemporary composers such as Joan and Ricard Lamote de Grignon and Joan Manén.
Joan Lamote, with whom the second part will begin, excelled with originality and apparent simplicity in the song, a genre in which he starts from the influence of the German lied model to bring out extraordinarily beautiful melodies that draw from our songbook. The second part will continue with virtually unpublished music by Ricard Lamote: fragments of Un prat, an exuberant work influenced by Russian ballets, in which the author demonstrates his great mastery of orchestration.
The concert will close with two works for choir and orchestra: Joan Manén composed several glosses on popular themes, including El pardal, a descriptive caprice of surprising inventiveness and great vocal demands; and the premiere of La força de la voluntat by Marc Migó, a work that explores the psychological concept of pareidolia based on a story by Quim Monzó.
Program and cast
Jaime Naya, violin
Montserrat Seró, soprano
Cor Madrigal
El Cor Canta
Orquestra Camerata XXI
Xavier Puig, conductor
Program
J. Garreta: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor
J. Lamote de Grignon: Songs based on poems by Apel·les Mestres (selection)
R. Lamote de Grignon: A Meadow (selection)
J. Manén: The Sparrow, for choir and orchestra
M. Migó: The Power of Will, for soprano, choir, and orchestra (based on a story by Quim Monzó. Commissioned by El Cor Canta. World premiere)
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An emblematic building of the Catalan Modernism, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997.
Built between 1905 and 1908 by the great architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner, the Palau de la Música Catalana is an architectural jewel of Barcelona and essential part of any visit to the city, as any of the most fascinating Gaudi buildings.
We suggest you visit the Palau with experienced guides, to discoverand experience its wonders: a whole world of surprises and refined details of Art Nouveau architecture.
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