Menu

Franz Schubert Filharmonia Logo
  • Buy tickets
  • Digital Hall
  • CAT
  • ES
  • ENG
  • Orchestra
    • Franz Schubert Filharmonia
    • Chief Conductor and Artistic Director
    • Players
    • Team
  • 2021-22 Season
    • 2021-2022 Season
    • Palau de la Música
    • Teatre Tarragona
    • Auditori Enric Granados
  • Upcoming concerts
  • Season subscriptions
    • Palau de la Música
  • News
  • Media
    • Videos
    • Photos
    • Audios
  • FSF Friends
  • Contact

JULY 2020

Centennial Commemoration Pau Casals Orchestra

A DESERVED TRIBUTE

Repertoire

J.S. BACH: Air from Suite No. 3, BWV 1068
L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’

Performers

Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Jordi Mora, conductor

Programme notes

There are few events more emotional than a tribute. Memories of the past are united in a shared present that, in some way, will be projected in the future of each one. The Pau Casals Orchestra was created a hundred years ago, and one of the most memorable concerts was the one held in Plaça Nova del Vendrell, in 1927, which paid tribute to Pau Casals.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote four orchestral suites, all of extraordinary beauty. However, the Aria from Suite No. 3 occupies an emblematic place because of its apparent simplicity but which concentrates all the complexity of the music: the fascination of a melody that repeats but does not bore because it always advances; the intrigue of a harmony that seems to follow the canons that are, at the same time, unique and a contrapuntal texture within which the instruments say different things. They speak at the same time, but they are heard, they are understood.

Beethoven understood perfectly that this composition was about that: making the difficult seem easy and, conscious of it, he decided to speak of the human being through music. With his third symphony, he demonstrated his genius and courage by showing that he did not renounce musical inheritances, but he did not tie himself to them. Considered by most experts as the symphony that marked the passage from Classicism to Romanticism, the title “Heroic” symbolizes more an ideal than a specific person. His four movements perfectly reflect ‘per aspera ad astra’ (from adversity to triumph), which so inspired 19th century composers. At the moment the world is in today, the strength and momentum of this symphony is comforting.

Centennial Commemoration Pau Casals Orchestra

CONCERT DATES

Centennial Commemoration Pau Casals Orchestra

Sunday 12.07.2020 · 21.30 H
Plaça Nova del Vendrell

Born in Barcelona, he studied orchestral direction mainly with Sergiu Celibidache. He has been the principal conductor of the National Orchestra of Greece and the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés.

As a guest conductor, he regularly directs in Germany, Spain, Argentina, Lebanon, Italy, USA, Russia, Romania, Greece and Venezuela.

He performs a wide pedagogical task, especially in Spain, Switzerland (Foundation Résonnance), Argentina (Fundación Cultural Argentina, Lyric Soul), Norway, Holland and Germany, putting into practice the system of the phenomenology of music, for both directors, as instrumental soloists, singers or chamber groups.

He is professor of orchestral conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) and guest professor of the Grieg-Akademie in Bergen (Norway). He is currently the director of the Orquestra Simfònica Segle XXI and the Bruckner Akademie Orchester, orchestra with he is making the integral of the symphonic work of this composer.

In 2014 he was named principal guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lebanon, where he has expanded his repertoire especially with the Schostakovich symphonies.

He has recently directed the Orquesta Nacional de Argentina and the Sinfónica Simón Bolívar of Venezuela. From 2014 to 2017 he was the main guest conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae (Catalonia).

sponsors

Repsol
La Caixa
Schutz
Ona

with the support of

Generalitat de Catalunya
Diputació de Tarragona
Ajuntament Barcelona
Ajuntament de Tarragona

Inaem
Auditori Pau Casals
SB Hotels

official media partner

media partners

CatMúsica
Diari de Tarragona
TimeOut Barcelona
Revista Muscial Catalana
Platea Magazine
Franz Schubert Filharmonia Filharmonia Digital Hall
  • Orchestra
  • 2020-21 Season
  • 2021-22 Season
  • 2019-20 Season
  • 2018-19 Season
  • 2017-18 Season
  • 2016-17 Season
  • Media
  • Contact
  • Franz Schubert Filharmonia - Facebook
  • Franz Schubert Filharmonia - Twitter
  • Franz Schubert Filharmonia - YouTube
  • Franz Schubert Filharmonia - Instagram
  • Franz Schubert Filharmonia - Spotify
  • Copyright
  • Legal notice
  • Filharmonia Digital Hall
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Accept More information
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT