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.

 

 

 

Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the 80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Husker Du were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions.

 

The last of Rachmaninov's concerts performed by Andsnes, one of the most outstanding pianists of the time. A work written between France and the United States, where the author settled after escaping from the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov's fourth is influenced by the music with which the composer was beginning to become familiarised in the West. Also in the United States, Stravinsky created Dumbarton Oaks, inspired in Bach's Brandenburg concerts but absolutely original. And so we find a romantic Rachmaninov carefully approaching modernity, and the renewing Stravinsky looking at the past. The programme is completed by a personal, fascinating and justly popular Prokofiev.

 

Airbourne is a straightforward rock band in the Aussie pub rock tradition of AC/DC, the Angels and Rose Tattoo: four guys with beers in hand who would rather die than be caught wearing a pink shirt. When Capitol merged with Virgin they were on of several artists dropped, though they managed to quickly sign a new contract with Roadrunner Records to secure a worldwide release for their album.

 

 

 

 

Presenting the VIII season of concerts entitled "Monumental Music", with Manuel González, an institution of Spanish Classical Guitar.

 

Mika's bright pop music has been compared to a melody of artists from Queen to the Scissor Sisters over to Rufus Wainwright and back to Elton John. Born in Beiruit, Mika is often accompanied by vocalist Lea Sonnek and hip-hop drummer Rainer Binder. Mika's debut album was entitled "Life in Cartoon Motion".

 

 

Workshop for families.