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

A self-congratulatory Cecilia Bartoli show at Salzburg Whitsun

Laura Servidei, 24th May

This year’s Salzburg Whitsun Festival gala, Ciao, bella ciao, features Cecilia Bartoli in a highly personalised musical programme structured as an autobiographical journey, unfolding as a blend of concert and self-portrait.

Sumptuous Sheffield Chamber Music Festival finale

Phil Parker, 23rd May

Ensemble 360 and soprano Claire Booth test to the limits the definition of ‘chamber music’ in this richly orchestral closing concert of the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

****1

More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

****1

Memorable Mendelssohn from Marek Janowski and the New York Phil

Susan Stempleski, 21st May

Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin plays Haydn before the esteemed German maestro conducts a vibrant Scottish Symphony.

****1

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

****1

Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Max Lima, 21st May

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

****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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