Brisas de emoción y vientos de protesta con Nasmé Ensemble en València

By Daniel Martínez Babiloni, 10 February 2026

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“Alshaikh, aportó un sonido terso y ligero, bien empastado con el del conjunto”

Reviewed at Palau de la Música: Sala Rodrigo, Valencia on 8 February 2026

Arnita, Andante meditativo para cuerda

Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Bottesini, Gran Quintetto for strings

Roustom, Cantos y danzas palestinos para quinteto con clarinete

Ensemble Nasmé

Michael Barenboim, Violin

Fadwa Qamhia, Double Bass

Hisham Khoury, Violin

Katia Abdel Kader, Viola

Genwa Khazen, Cello

Ibrahim Alshaikh, Clarinet

Superb Hungarian and Czech music from Hindoyan and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 6th February

Michael Barenboim gives a powerful performance of Bartók's Violin Concerto no. 2; Domingo Hindoyan and the RLPO give equally strong accounts of music by Kodály and Dvořák.

*****

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra shows its stars at the Salzburg Festival

Alexander Hall, 13th August

Daniel Barenboim offered an unusually Germanic take on César Franck, while section leaders Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani pulled double duty as soloists in Brahms' Double Concerto.

****1

A Festival of New Music closes with an Empty Space

Roy Westbrook, 12th July

After four evenings and ten world premieres, Pierre Boulez Saal's A Festival of New Music comes to a haunting end.

****1

A memorable program at the Pierre Boulez Saal

Kurt Gottschalk, 11th July

The third concert of A Festival of New Music also suggests the conflicts and split personalities which may come from extended isolation.

****1

Contemporary with a touch of intimacy at the Pierre Boulez Saal

Mark Thomas, 10th July

Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and select musicians continue their brief odyssey into new music with three striking and stimulating world premieres and a welcome touch of Boulez.

****1

Thomas Adés' new ballet score debuts in LA... without dancers

Laurence Vittes, 11th May

Inferno, after Dante's Divine Comedy, is a 46-minute ballet score rich in astounding, ingenious, sumptuous effects with a particular genius for unlikely combinations of instruments, and only a few obvious Lisztian references.

*****

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Daniel Martínez Babiloni

Daniel Martínez Babiloni cursa estudios de Máster de Musicología Aplicada en la Universidad de La Rioja, donde se licenció en Historia y Ciencias de la Música. Sus preferencias de estudio se centran en el clarinete, la música actual, la música popular urbana y las bandas de música. Sus artículos han sido publicados por la Universitat de València, Universitat Politècnica de València y la Sociedad Española de Musicología. Colabora con instituciones como el Institut Valencià de Cultura, Palau de la Música de València, Festival Internacional de Santander, así como con diferentes revistas y diarios. Es Profesor Superior de Clarinete y Maestro de Educación Musical.

Brisas de emoción y vientos de protesta en el concierto de Nasmé Ensemble en València