The classical approaches Holy Week with certain hyperactivity in the Catalan music scene. Today begins the Cervera Easter Festival, which will feature several premieres and unpublished works from the Catalan repertoire or that are rarely performed, such as Jaume Pahissa's Intertonal Suite that the Julià Carbonell Orchestra will play in the opening concert (8 p.m., Paranimf de la University).
This 13th edition features the Madrigal Choir that tomorrow premieres Lullaby by Albert Guinovart, setting to music a text by Josep Palau i Fabre. And it will be performed for the first time Diré en mi tes bonances by Joan Magrané, based on a text by Agustí Bartra.
Pianist Lluís Capdevila premieres his album Lament (while sommelier Jordi Martínez makes a selection of wines) and Pau Casals and other exiled female composers play in the voice of tenor Roger Padullés or the strings of the Atenea Quartet. Los Kebyart (winners of the Enderrock) bring Montserrat Campmany's Saxophone Quartet to Catalonia, while the Catalan Baroque Orchestra closes the competition with Josep Pla's Stabat Mater and Manuel Pla's Salve Regina.
Peralada celebrates its first Easter edition, from the 6th to the 8th, opening with the baritone Jakub Jósef Orlínski in Carmen, and closing with the tenor of the moment, Freddie de Tommaso. And betting on the oratorio La Giuditta by Scarlatti in charge of Vespres d'Arnadí, soprano Serena Sáenz and countertenor Xavier Sabata.
In Barcelona, the Liceu Symphony Orchestra and Choir will delve into this musical Everest tomorrow, which is the complete set of Mahler symphonies, beginning with the 3rd, one of his most optimistic and extroverted scores, which will feature the mezzo-soprano Victoria Karkacheva (award-winning Vinas and also Operalia).
Speaking of singing competitions, these days there has been a rare coincidence: the Serbian baritone Milan Perišić, who lives in Barcelona, has won both the first prize of the 19th Les Corts Contest and the Josep Palet contest organized by Joventuts Musicals de Martorell . And on Thursday the American pianist Jonathan Mamora was the winner of the already legendary Maria Canals, at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
In this same room, Vox Luminis with the Freigurger Barockorchester, and then Philippe Herreweghe with his Collegium Vocale Gent, have offered both passions of Bach this week. Composer, this one, to which the Liceu Symphony returned yesterday at the Mercat de la Boqueria along with students from the Liebigschule in Giessen (Germany). Dozens of musicians from the orchestra celebrated the anniversary of the baroque genius –338 years now– with two performances coordinated by Matthias Weinmann, a collaborator with Liceu Apropa, which are part of the Bach in the Subways movement that emerged 12 years ago in the New York subway. York.
And also with Bach, but this time with liturgical orthodoxy, the Bachcelona Consort will travel to the Cuenca Religious Music Festival with a program of cantatas written for Easter, specifically for Resurrection Sunday.
