Lección pianística: Almirón inaugura el Festival de Sabadell

By Albert Ferrer Flamarich, 23 June 2025

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“una orfebrería tímbrica sutil en el uso de ornamentos, notas dobles y arpegios”

Reviewed at Teatre Principal, Sabadell on 19 June 2025

Brahms, Intermezzo in A flat major, Op.76 no.3

Brahms, Capriccio en sol mineur, Op.116 no. 3

Brahms, 6 Pieces for Piano: Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

Strauss R., Sonata in B minor for piano, Op.5

Liszt, 2 Légendes, for orchestra, S 175

Josep Maria Almirón, Piano

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

Wrangling the octopus: Mahler’s Ninth with Sir Simon Rattle

Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

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Albert Ferrer Flamarich

Albert Ferrer Flamarich (Barcelona, 1983). Historiador del arte y musicógrafo (Universitat Barcelona) que desde el año 2000 ha participado en numerosos de medios de comunicación escrita y de radio, editando un modesto boletín sobre zarzuela (2002-06). Trabajó para la discográfica Columna Música (2008-2013) y desde 2009 ofrece regularmente conferencias. Ha sido profesor en Universidad Catalana d’Estiu en Prada de Conflent (2015), Conservatorio de Sant Cugat del Vallès (2019) y Campus de la Experiència de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2019-2021). Es revisor y asesor de editoriales musicales, ha impulsado la publicación de títulos en español y actualmente coordina la serie sobre Eduard Toldrà para Dinsic Publicaciones Musicales.

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