Jesús Reina & Franz Schubert Filharmonia

The Franz Schubert Filharmonia orchestra is collaborating for the first time with one of today’s great violinists, Jesús Reina from Málaga, on a tour that will be presented exclusively at the Josep Carreras Auditorium in Vila-seca and will feature the orchestra for different cities of Andalusia. A tour where Reina will perform one of the most beloved and beautiful concerts in the repertoire, Bruch’s Violin Concerto, and our principal conductor, Tomàs Grau, will offer us the captivating and virtuoso Symphony no. 4 ‘Italian’ by Mendelssohn. A concert to enjoy and hear the great music of Romanticism.

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Concert music, in addition to reaching our hearts and stirring our emotions, often also has the function of entertaining, of marveling, of surprising. Some symphonic works are written with the intention of leaving us nailed to the armchair with our mouths open. That’s what Max Bruch was up to when he composed his Violin Concerto. He sought the advice of the best violinist of the time, the Hungarian Joseph Joachim, and managed to create an absolutely spectacular work. To prove it, no one is better than the Andalusian violinist Jesús Reina, one of the best violinists of his generation and a musician of great virtuosity and musicality.

At the age of 21, Mendelssohn spent a season in Rome. Italy inspired him to compose, but as he himself said: “I did not find music in art itself, but in the ruins, landscapes and joy of nature.” The ‘Italian’ Symphony was a great success from the day of the premiere, largely due to the grace and beauty of the first movement, the sweet ballad of the second, and the Neapolitan tarantella that closes the play.

A concert that brings together two of the most exciting, melodic and virtuoso works of Romanticism. A concert to continue enjoying the great musical repertoire.