Love leaves a trace in Torroella de Montgrí

BarcelonaThe Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov and the American soprano Nadine Sierra are two of the standout names at the 46th Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, which will be held from July 31 to August 21. The motto “Love leaves a trace” shelters a program that the festival director, Montse Faura, assures will “not be a simple succession of concerts, but a constellation of experiences”. The trace, says Faura, is “what remains after a true artistic experience; what modifies us, what continues to act within us long after the last note has disappeared”. It is the sensation that she hopes a dozen concerts will provoke, most of them at the Auditori Espai Ter.

The festival will be inaugurated by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National of Catalonia (OBC), conducted by the Belarusian Vitali Alekseenok, the principal conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. With the Barcelona pianist Josep Colom as soloist, they will perform a program dedicated to Beethoven. Another distinguished soloist, the Madrid cellist Pablo Ferrández, will be the protagonist of the August 1 concert by the Simfònica del Vallès on Pau Casals: under the baton of Andrés Salado, the orchestra will link a program that will include Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor which Casals recorded twice, with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture, and Sant Martí del Canigó, which Casals composed in exile in Prada in the early years of exile.

In the orchestral lineup of the Torroella Festival, on August 3rd, there is also the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by the British Daniel Harding and with Daniil Trifonov as soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, by Brahms, within a program that also includes the Symphony No. 8 in G majorThe Diotima Quartet, founded in Paris in 1996, will stop in Torroella on August 2nd to premiere A premiere by Joan Magrané

The Diotima Quartet, founded in Paris in 1996, will stop in Torroella on August 2nd to premiere "ES" String Quartet No. 4, by the composer Joan Magrané from Reus, commissioned by the festival itself. The Diotima, which in recent years has premiered works by Benet Casablancas, already premiered another quartet by Magrané, number 3, in 2019.

In the lyrical sphere, there will be a recital by soprano Nadine Sierra, who has been a triumph at the Liceu for some seasons, with pianist Bryan Wagorn on August 15th (with the program yet to be determined). Soprano Jeanine de Bique, from Trinidad and Tobago, will sing a Mozartean program with the Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by the Hungarian Éva Borhi on August 16th. And the French ensemble .

The program of the 46th Torroella Festival is completed by Clara Brunet & Bor Zuljan, Concerto 1700 with the Tribute to Caesar and Da Pacem Domine.

The programming of the 46th Torroella Festival is completed by Clara Brunet & Bor Zuljan, Concerto 1700 with the cantaora Laura Marchal, Avi Vital, Cantoría, and the tribute to Kurtág by the trio The Rest Project.