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.

 

 

Two brilliant specialists suggest particularly well-known pieces from their string repertoire. Both the Passacaglia by Halvorsen (created from the last movement of Suite no. 7 by Händel) and the Sonata for solo violin by Bartók (which we can hear in the first version written in 1944 for Yehudi Menuhin) are pieces of extraordinary inspiration which demand great virtuosity. The concert will be completed with a work by Ravel dedicated to the memory of Debussy, which stakes on a composing clarity relieved of all superfluous ornamentation.