The Valencia Orchestra and the Municipal Symphony Orchestra will once again celebrate October 9 musically. La Senyera will preside over the Iturbi Hall of the Palau de la Música both at the concert of the Valencia Orchestra tomorrow, Saturday October 5, at 7:00 p.m., and on Tuesday October 8, at the performance of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra. , scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Both programs are free and have limited capacity.
The mayor of Valencia, Maria José Cataláinvited citizens to attend these two concerts “of our most loved and admired musical institutions, concerts full of emotion, feeling, universality and valencism”, and in a Palau de la Música “that is” the main axis of culture in our city, and which is once again the musical epicenter of the commemoration of our most important day.” In this sense, the mayor emphasized regarding the concert of the Orchestra of Valencia that “it is no coincidence that the concert was scheduled for October 5, a year after the happy reopening of the Palau to citizens, after the sad period of closure of its rooms and which, once recovered, shines with the strength, luminosity and prestige that characterizes it.
THE Valencia Orchestra will perform a program that ranges from Valencian to universal, from Joaquín Rodrigo to Ludwig van Beethoven. Under the direction of its owner Alexander Liebreich, in the first half they will perform one of the great scores of the Saguntine maestro Rodrigo, which marks the 25th anniversary of his death. This is the Fantasy for a Gentleman, originally composed for guitar, but this time it will be heard in the author’s version for flute and orchestra. It was written in memory of the knight Gaspar Sanz, court composer of Charles II. It will feature one of the Valencia Orchestra’s most veteran and notable soloists, Salvador Martínez.
In the second part, the audience will hear Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, one of the most famous masterpieces of all time and which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year. The orchestra and conductor will share the stage with an impressive vocal cast with sopranos Christina Landshamer and Carmen Romeu, tenor Maximilian Schmitt and baritone Carles Pachon, and above all with the magnificent Choir of the Bavarian Radio Symphony, birthplace of Master Liebreich.
For his part, the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Valenciadirected by its owner, Cristóbal Soler, presents a program with an entirely Valencian repertoire, which includes the absolute premiere with jazz accents of the suite for symphony orchestra De l’horta a l’Albufera by Pau Chafer. You will also hear the colorful Homenaje a Sorolla by Bernardo Adam Ferrero, Jardín del Turia by Pablo Bas, as well as the symphonic poems Al-Buhayra by Jordi Peiró and Bruixes de l’horta by Miguel Asensi. An evening in which the flautist Paco Varoch and Xavi de Bétera, eminent voice of the cant d’estil, will participate.
