Tradicionàrius. Annual local folk festival. Well considered, with a strong emphasis on Catalan traditional music.

 

This is the tenth year of this festival focussing heavily on all things flamenco. De Cajón forms part of an association of flamenco festivals, along with the Festival of Jerez, the Malaga Festival and Flamenco Festival Caja Madrid.

 

A long-running festival which takes place in some of Barcelona's finest music venues, bringing some of the most famous exponents of guitar playing in the world to our doorstep. A welcome annual event. 2010 is the 21st edition.

 

 

 

The always welcome presence of the great Brazilian celloist Antonio Meneses in the soloist part of the always attractive, elegant concert of Saint-Saëns is a guarantee of a memorable performance. It will also be he who leads the version of the lyrical, poetical Tchaikovsky, all amidst a programme with works to awaken our imagination. The references to a hero of Byron in the overture by Berlioz, the exoticism of the music inspiring Kodaly in the Dances of Galanta, the place where he spent his infancy, and a magical tale on which Stravinsky based one of his most famous works.

 

 

 

 

 

This year’s inaugural concert will feature this group from Salamanca made up of performers from different countries and of a basically French-speaking line-up. The programme comprises some of the iconic pieces of the French spectral school alongside the audacious sound micro-universe of Sciarrino, the new contributions of Riera and the suggestive oceanic voices recreated by the veteran North American composer George Crumb.