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Concert notes: Virtuosity and sensitivity

22.11.2023 / Thanks to the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, violinist Soyoung Yoon and conductor Krszysztof Urbański, two of the most charismatic artists of the moment, made their debut at the Palau de la Música Catalana. Exceptionally talented, Soyoung Yoon performed the Sibelius Violin...

The 2023-24 Season at the Auditori Josep Carreras and the Celler of Vila-seca

17.11.2023 / We are pleased to present the 2023-24 Season of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia at Vila-seca. A season that will bring the best symphonic music to the town and that will have two unbeatable venues such as the Auditori Josep Carreras and the Celler de Vila-seca. A season at...

Concert notes: The music is back

02.10.2023 / In front of a fully packed Palau de la Música, the Franz Schubert Filharmonia inaugurated its 12th Season of concerts. The evening began with the touch of flabiol and tambourine of the sardana ‘Sant Martí del Canigó’ by Pau Casals, an emotional and powerful...

The 2023-24 Symphonic Season at the Teatre Tarragona

25.09.2023 / We are pleased to present the new Symphonic Season of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia in Tarragona. A season that, thanks to the support of institutions and collaborators and the passion of our audience, has turned Tarragona into one of the main musical capitals in Europe. A...

The 2023-24 Season at the Auditori Enric Granados of Lleida

20.09.2023 / We are pleased to present the new season of the Franz Schubert Fhilharmonia at the Auditori Enric Granados. A season that, thanks to the support and passion of our public, has turned Lleida into one of the main musical capitals in Europe, a season at the service of the...

Debut at Carnegie Hall, New York

06.07.2023 / The Franz Schubert Filharmonia, the greatest independent orchestra in Spain, debuts the October 10th 2023 at Carnegie Hall with a very emblematic program, under the baton of its Artistic and Music Director Tomàs Grau. This will be a journey of celebration. A journey that...

The image of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia changes

29.06.2023 / The project of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia can be explained as a constant growth since its beginnings without losing our essence: bringing music to everyone from excellence and sharing from emotion. This year, at the gates of summer and with our eyes already on the next...

Concert notes | Night of celebration with the Càrmina Choir

24.05.2023 / Last May 21st at the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Franz Schubert Filhamonia and the Càrmina Choir offered a concert full of celebrations. First, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Càrmina Choir. Under the baton of its conductor Daniel Mestre, the orchestra,...

Concert notes | Virtuosity and emotion with Midori and the Franz Schubert Filharmonia

01.05.2023 / Yesterday we met at the Palau de la Música Catalana, to celebrate two masterpieces of the musical repertoire. In the first part, violinist Midori, in her second collaboration with the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, fascinated us with a highly virtuosic, vibrant and seductive...

We present the orchestra’s official App and give you -20% dte. with its download

19.04.2023 / We are very happy to present you the oficial App of the orchestra that we have developed thanks to Sinfon.io. In this App you will find all the information about our concerts, buying tickets, boocklets, current news, special discounts, high quality videos and recorded...

The 2023-24 Season at Palau de la Música Catalana

14.04.2023 / The 2023-24 Season at the Palau de la Música Catalana with Ermonela Jaho, Mischa Maisky, Krysztof Urbański, Christoph Eschenbach, Sayaka Shoji and Trio Ludwig. From the Franz Schubert Filharmonia we present our 2023-24 Season at the Palau de la Música Catalana, our 12th...

BRAHMS: FREE BUT HAPPY

08.04.2023 / In 1883, Antonín Dvořák spent a few days with Brahms in Vienna. At Dvořák’s request, Brahms played the first and last piano movements of his – still unreleased – Third Symphony. Of that encounter, Dvořák wrote: ‘I say without exaggeration that...

TCHAIKOVSKY: ELEVEN DAYS AND A MASTERPIECE

06.04.2023 / The Violin Concerto, Op. 35 by Tchaikovsky combines dazzling melodies, raw emotion and luminous virtuosity. Ironically, it dates back to 1878, a year in which Tchaikovsky was struggling with severe depression, caused by the failure of his marriage due to his sexual...

A night to remember with Joshua Bell

23.03.2023 / Last Tuesday, March 21, music fans gathered at the Palau de la Música Catalana to experience one of the great musical dates of the Season in Barcelona, Joshua Bell’s debut with the Franz Schubert Philharmonic. In front of a packed Palace, Bell led the orchestra from...

Musical exquisiteness and virtuosity with Joshua Bell

17.03.2023 / Joshua Bell, (December 9, 1967, Bloomington, Indiana, USA), is, without a doubt, one of the most recognized musicians in the world. His parents gave him his first violin at the age of four, after they discovered that he made music by stretching rubber bands of different...

‘… it will be marvellous’ | Joshua Bell & Mendelssohn

08.03.2023 / Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto grew out of a long and deep friendship between him and Ferdinand David, a violinist he had known since his teens. David had repeatedly asked Mendelssohn for a concert, but this was repeatedly postponed due to the composer’s numerous...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Change of soloist at the concerts of the Labèque sisters

20.02.2023 / We regret to inform you that, due to an injury to Katia Labèque’s shoulder, the Labèque sisters will not be able to perform at this concert. We are deeply grateful that pianist Alba Ventura has accepted our last-minute invitation and is accompanying us on this tour...

The best piano duo out there today

13.02.2023 / Known worldwide for their energy and synchronization, the duo formed by Katia and Marielle Labèque has been, and is, one of the most prestigious in the music world. Versatile and professionals, they have been surprising with their performances on the piano for more than...

A musical filigree of the Mozart brothers

02.02.2023 / Mozart wrote his only concerto for two pianos in Salzburg in 1779-1780 to be performed by himself and his sister Anna Maria, better known by the family nickname of Nannerl. No biography of Mozart can fail to mention Nannerl. An excellent pianist, who accompanied Mozart and...

Oh! Mozart, Mozart Immortal

05.01.2023 / “Excerpt from Franz Schubert’s Personal Diary” 1816 was a very busy year for Franz Schubert. That year he wrote about 200 compositions: a mass, choral works, an overture, two string quartets, violin and piano sonatas, numerous dances, dozens of songs and...

A journey of life with Alice Sara Ott

25.11.2022 / Along with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the 24 Preludes, Op. Chopin’s 28s are probably the most famous group of pieces conceived as an orderly journey through the 24 major and minor keys. Franz Liszt, praised the Preludes saying ‘they soothe the soul with...

The good memory of Haydn

07.11.2022 / For years, only one cello concerto by Haydn was known, in D major, Haydn was known to have previously written a cello concerto in C major, but the concerto was completely lost. The information came from a draft catalog that Haydn himself began writing, under the name...

🌿 Musical happiness with The Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ – Beatus ille

27.10.2022 / Beethoven component La Pastoral Water-ink from a gravat by Franz Hegi (1774-1850) The famous concert, lasting more than 4 hours, which Beethoven will conduct on December 22, 1808 in Vienna, will take place with the premiere of the seva Sisena Simfonia...

The 2022-23 Season at Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat with Joshua Bell, Ivo Pogorelich and the best OST of Disney

13.10.2022 / We are pleased to present the new 2022-23 Season of the Franz Schubert Philharmonic at the Teatre Auditori de Sant Cugat. A season built with dedication and inspiration, with the desire to offer a wide range of soundscapes, that make us experience the greatness of symphonic...

The 2022-23 Symphonic Season at the Teatre Tarragona with Tchaikovsky Nutcracker, the sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque and the violinist Midori

07.10.2022 / We are pleased to present the new 2022-23 Symphony Season of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia at Teatre Tarragona. A season built to continue positioning Tarragona as one of the main symphonic centers in Europe. A Season where we will hear the magic of the Disney and Marvel...

Love and inspiration with Chopin and Dvorák

19.09.2022 / Impossible love: The Piano Concerto no. 2 by Chopin In a letter to a friend, Chopin confessed that the Larghetto in the concerto was inspired by Constanza Gladkowska, a young singer at the Warsaw Conservatory: “Perhaps, unfortunately for me, I have reached my ideal...

midori, awarded the 2020 Brahms Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society

01.09.2022 / The violinist Midori received the 2020 Brahms Prize from the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society last Saturday in recognition of her successful career. Due to the pandemic, the award ceremony in Wesselburen has been postponed from February 2020 to this month of August 2022....

the best OST of Marvel superheroes and DC universe

01.09.2022 / We present to you as a preview the new concert that the Franz Schubert Philharmonia orchestra will premiere at the Tarragona Theater and the Palau de la Música Catalana next October 8 and 9. Enjoy in concert the best soundtracks of Marvel superheroes and the DC universe...

07/07/22 – STREAMING: Vivaldi Four Seasons from Palau de la Música Catalana

06.07.2022 / This Thursday, July 7 at 8 pm, we will enjoy streaming of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with the violinist Liza Ferschtman, one of the most special violinists of the moment and who we are happy to present to our audience for the first time. In the second part, we will...

LA LLEGENDA DE LA MÚSICA DE CINEMA

31.05.2022 / L’orquestra Franz Schubert Filharmonia, amb 70 músics en escena, celebrarà la gran música de John Williams interpretant les millors BSO d’aquest compositor: Star Wars, Tiburón, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Hook… John Williams, és tota una...

From Venice to the world

10.05.2022 / Vivaldi’s four seasons are not only among the most popular pieces of classical music, but also circulated widely in the composer’s era and inspired other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach himself. The four seasons were especially popular in France, where...

New subscriptions Season 2022-23 now on sale!

19.04.2022 / Today, Tuesday 19th April, we release the sale of the new Subscriptions for the 2022-23 season of Franz Schubert Filharmonia at the Palau de la Música Catalana. This Subscription is the option that offers the best discounts and advantages, and allows you to enjoy the same...

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA, AN UNIQUE AND IRREPLECEABLE ARTIST

19.04.2022 / Next Sunday, 24th April at 17:30, at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Franz Schubert Filharmonia, with the direction of Tomàs Grau, invited one of the most desired violinists of the time, the great violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Kopatchinskaja’s violin is a...

🎬 STREAMING: VOLODIN & FRANZ SCHUBERT FILHARMONIA AT PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA

19.04.2022 / Next Thursday, 28th April at 20:00 p.m., the Brahms Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 will be premiered at the Filharmonia Digital Hall, a work of great difficulty, full of references to gypsy music and moments of great beauty. Performed by Alexei Volodin, one of the...

Franz Schubert Filharmonia presents new season 2022-23 at Palau de la Música Catalana

07.04.2022 / Franz Schubert Filharmonia presents season 2022-23 at Palau de la Música Catalana inviting Elisabeth Leonskaja, Joshua Bell, Katia i Marielle Labèque, Alice Sara Ott, Ivo Pogorelich and Midori. We are pleased to present to you the new 2022-23 season of Franz...

AN OFFERING OF LOVE: THE GREAT MASS IN C MINOR

24.03.2022 / Mozart’s father never liked his son’s engagement with Constanze Weber, and he only approved it when the wedding was already inevitable. It is not known why Mozart, after leaving Salzburg and moving to Vienna with Constanze, wrote the Great Mass in C minor, but...

JAVIER PERIANES & FRANZ SCHUBERT FILHARMONIA ON STREAMING

17.03.2022 / Next Thursday, 24th March, at 8:00 p.m., the Filharmonia Digital Hall premieres the wonderful Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 performed by Javier Perianes, one of the most internationally renowned artists of these years. We will complete the concert with one of the...

A great “Small” concert and music as destiny

03.03.2022 / Corpulent and with a large white beard. This is the iconic image we have of Johannes Brahms. What is not so well known, perhaps, is his fine sense of irony. An example: in the letters that Brahms wrote while composing the Piano Concerto No. 2, he defined this work as...

Statement by the Franz Schubert Filharmonia and Alexei Volodin regarding the upcoming tour

28.02.2022 / The Franz Schubert Filharmonia, the maestro Tomàs Grau and the pianist Alexei Volodin will dedicate next week’s concerts with the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony to those affected by the attacks on Ukraine. “I, Alexei...

SPRING SEASON AT Teatre Tarragona

23.02.2022 / Tickets for our Spring Season 2021-2022 concerts at Teatre Tarragona are now on sale! We invite you to share with us the experience of symphonic music. To fully experience the unrepeatable moment of live emotion. To enjoy the present. To interpret the moment. We wanted to...

BACH’S ST MATTHEW PASSION ON STREAMING

16.02.2022 / On Thursday, 17th February, at 20:00 p.m., St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach will be premiered at the Filharmonia Digital Hall. A concert with soloists from the Berlin Barock Solisten, L’Orfeó Català and the Franz Schubert Filharmonia under the direction of...

When Mischa Maisky met Pablo Casals

10.02.2022 / On 18th August, 1973, a young Mischa Maisky met Pablo Casals in Jerusalem. Casals was participating in the Israel Festival and agreed to listen to a promising young Maisky, who performed Bach’s Suite No. 2 for the Maestro. Sitting next to Casals was his wife, Marta;...

MISCHA MAISKY AT PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA

01.02.2022 / Last season, Mischa Maisky impressed us with his interpretation of Dvořák Cello Concerto. At the end of the concert we re-invited him to play in front of our public, in a recital, one of the musical monuments of our patrimony, Bach’s Cello Solo Suites. Mischa Maisky...

MOZART & MENDELSSOHN WITH THE FRANZ SCHUBERT FILHARMONIA

18.01.2022 / From 1782 to 1785, Mozart organized musical evenings in which he performed as a soloist, presenting three or four piano concertos in each season of the year. These works became very popular and have become essential pieces of the pianistic repertoire. One of these concertos...

NEW PRODUCTION: THE BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS OF JOHN WILLIAMS

18.01.2022 / To thank you for your commitment, after our sold out with the Disney concerts, we exclusively present the next production that the orchestra will perform at the Palau de la Música Catalana on June 6. A concert where we will revive the best John Willams OST with movies like...

HÄNDEL’S MESSIAH STREAMING; FROM PALAU DE LA MUSICA CATALANA

11.01.2022 / Next Thursday, 20th January at 20:00 pm, the Filharmonia Digital Hall premieres on streaming the debut of maestro Paul Agnew, musical director of the famous ensemble: Les Arts Florissants, with the Franz Schubert Filharmonia playing Händel’s Messiah, one of the...

The magic of Disney in Barcelona

07.12.2021 / The songs of Disney’s films are a part of the inheritance we have been sharing and discovering with our families for generations. Some songs, written by the best composers, have made us travel and feel great emotions. Franz Schubert Filharmonia arrives to the...

IN THE BEST HANDS WITH PAUL AGNEW

02.12.2021 / Next Sunday, 12th December at 5:30 pm, Paul Agnew will make his debut at the head of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia conducting Handel’s Messiah. Paul Agnew, tenor and musical director of the famous ensemble Les Arts Florissants, along with William Christie, is...

Decisive music at the Palau de la Música with the Messiah

22.11.2021 / Handel picked up the pen and drew a few notes. One by one, the signs took shape with magical speed. He could not stop, he went on like a ship with the sails inflated by the storm. Around him the night was silent and the damp, silent darkness fell over the great city. But...

The Ona Book Store, new contributor of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia

16.11.2021 / We are delighted to announce that the Ona Bookstore is becoming a preferred contributor to the Franz Schubert Philharmonic! The Ona Bookstore is a unique cultural facility, which is impacted by its modernity and spaciousness. It has a complete space for literature in the...

We present you the Symphonic Season 2021-22 at the Teatre Tarragona

26.10.2021 / The Franz Schubert Filharmonia presents the 2021-22 Symphony Season, its 9th concert season at the Teatre Tarragona. A season of artistic reaffirmation in the founding values of the orchestra that will once again place the city of Tarragona as one of the great...

Bruch and the most beautiful concerto | Brahms and the winged melodies

23.10.2021 / A young Max Bruch arrived in the German city of Koblenz to hold the position of Musical Director of the city. In an effort to demonstrate his mastery, Bruch composed his Violin Concerto no. 1 premiered in 1866. Koblenz was fascinated by the concert, a spectacular work...

We commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pau Casals at the United Nations

20.10.2021 / We invite you to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the Anthem for the United Nations with an event-concert at the Palau de la Música Catalana. The Franz Schubert Philharmonic and the Orfeó Català, conducted by Maestro Tomàs Grau, will perform the Hymn...

The birth of the virtuoso piano at the Palau de la Música Catalana

06.10.2021 / The Franz Schubert Filharmonia inaugurates its Season at the Palau de la Música Catalana performing Beethoven’s Integral Piano Concertos with the great pianist Paul Lewis, one of the great Beethoven artists of the current scene, and conducted by Tomàs Grau....

Piano Subscription + International Soloists Susbscription

05.10.2021 / The 2021-22 Season of the Franz Schubert Filharmonia is about to begin and you still have time to enjoy the best seats and the discounts offered by the Piano Subscription and the International Soloists Subscription to live the concerts at the Palau de la Música Catalana....

The OCM Symphony Orchestra becomes the Franz Schubert Filharmonia

28.09.2021 / We are pleased to report that the OCM Symphony Orchestra evolves to the Franz Schubert Filharmonia. In its path of growth and excellence, the OCM has found a new formula to explain itself to the world from now on, exemplifying it through a new name that represents its love...