Alice Sara Ott: Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona

Over het evenement

Enjoy a wonderful concert with the Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona and great pianist Alice Sara Ott, conducted by Juanjo Mena, with works by Janácek, Liszt and Bartók at the Auditori de Barcelona.

The modern idea of the instrumental virtuoso was born with Franz Liszt, one of the first musicians capable of filling auditoria worldwide with performances of his own work. After 1848, with a fortune ample enough for a life of leisure, the Hungarian composer retired from the stage to create a Weimar refuge. In Weimar,  he founded the most important piano school of the nineteenth century.

Planned throughout the 1830s, but written in June 1849, his Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major is, in the words of Liszt himself, “clear in its essence, brilliant in its expression, and great in its style”.

The Wooden Prince is a fun ballet pantomime by Bartók from 1914‐1916 that asks for a fully‐performing orchestra (including saxophones and celesta) and is almost Wagnerian in spirit.

Along the same vein, is the suite from the opera The Cunning Little Vixen by Janácek, a piece inspired by a comic strip that uses simple background story to reflect on the eternal natural cycle between life and death.