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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...