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 First Young Musicians Season at the Auditori premieres with an inaugural concert featuring an especially apt piece for Easter: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, one of the passages in the history of music with the most versions. Haydn wrote the first exclusively orchestral version in 1787 for a religious community in Cadiz. The success of the work meant that versions immediately began to circulate that included a choral part, which led Haydn to write his own version. The transcription for string quartet, composed later, posed a number of doubts about its authorship, today finally dispelled. This genesis gives some idea of the importance attributed by the composer to this immortal creation that is performed for us today by the Quartet Qvixote, one of the leading chamber music groups in the country.