Christoph Prégardien and Pauliina Tukiainen arrive at the LIFE Victoria series with a recital dedicated to dreams and the night
The legendary tenor Christoph Prégardien arrives at LIFE Victoria in Barcelona accompanied by pianist Pauliina Tukiainen this Friday, March 13, at 8:00 PM, to offer a program that proposes a musical journey through the universe of dreams, understood not only as a nocturnal manifestation, but as a profound expression of desire, faith, beauty, or loss. The event will take place at Sant Pau Recinte Modernista.
The artists will perform fundamental works from the ‘trinity of Lied’: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms, who explored these concepts in depth and expressed the deepest passions through their music.
To begin, we will hear Liederkreis Op. 24, a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the year he married Clara Wieck; we will continue with some of the emblematic Lieder of Johannes Brahms, such as Dein blaues Auge or Von ewiger Liebe. The second part will focus on Franz Schubert and will review his most beautiful Lieder, culminating with Nacht und Träume, one of the greatest Romantic flowerings of the repertoire.
LIFE New Artists
The recital by Prégardien and Tukiainen will be preceded by a performance by two young talents from the LIFE New Artists program, soprano Laura Brasó and pianist Rafael Soler. As is customary in the series, emerging talent holds a special place in the recitals, taking charge of opening the evening and sharing the stage with artists of long-standing careers.
The artists will perform fundamental works from the ‘trinity of Lied’: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms, who explored these concepts in depth and expressed the deepest passions through their music.
To begin, we will hear Liederkreis Op. 24, a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the year he married Clara Wieck; we will continue with some of the emblematic Lieder of Johannes Brahms, such as Dein blaues Auge or Von ewiger Liebe. The second part will focus on Franz Schubert and will review his most beautiful Lieder, culminating with Nacht und Träume, one of the greatest Romantic flowerings of the repertoire.
Alba Ventura performs the complete Iberia by Albéniz
As part of the Alicia de Larrocha Series, the acclaimed pianist Alba Ventura will perform the complete suite Iberia by Isaac Albéniz in two musical sessions taking place on Friday the 13th (Books I and II) and Wednesday, March 18 (Books III and IV) at 7:00 PM at Sant Pau Recinte Modernista.
Iberia is the composer’s dream of an idealized country, which avoids folklorism but draws from popular sources in a poetic and almost dreamlike way. The suite was composed between Paris and Nice, where Albéniz moved for health reasons and where he died in 1909, just one year after finishing this crowning work of his career.
Alba Ventura is the heir to the great legacy of the Spanish piano school represented by the tradition of the Acadèmia Marshall, founded by Enrique Granados in 1901. This interpretive style was preserved by Granados’ disciple, Frank Marshall, and passed on to Ventura by Carlota Garriga and Alicia de Larrocha.
Ventura’s participation in the series dedicated to Alicia de Larrocha closes the circle and celebrates a history that remains relevant today.
LIFE Victoria lands in Mallorca
On March 17, Montserrat Seró and Marc Heredia will debut in Palma with a recital in collaboration with the Teatre Principal de Palma de Mallorca.
Seró is one of the resident artists this season at LIFE Victoria, reaffirming a connection that began in 2019. Her career is truly on the rise: trained at the Liceu Conservatory and in the Victoria de los Ángeles Master in Lied at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), she has collaborated with orchestras such as the Vallès Symphony and the Victoria de los Ángeles Symphony Orchestra (OSVA), among others, performing at renowned national theaters and auditoriums.
She recently recorded the opera Giuseppe Riconosciuto by Domènec Terradellas with the Vespres d’Arnadí orchestra. She has debuted at the Gran Teatre del Liceu with Madama Butterfly and West Side Story. She has also debuted at the Teatro Real with the contemporary opera Don Juan no existe by Helena Cánovas, and will debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza as Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Mozart.