Next Sunday 22 May, at 19.30, the Orquesta Filarmonía will perform for the first time its only solo concert in the 2021/2022 season at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música (National Auditorium). Ravel’s Bolero concert will be the most intimate and special date between the audience and the Orchestra, in which the Filarmonía musicians will be the true protagonists of the evening.
Meticulously designed and tailor-made by Maestro Pascual Osa for the Filarmonía musicians, the programme includes four of the best known and liveliest pieces of the orchestral symphonic repertoire. It begins with the Capricho Español, op. 34 by N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed in 1887, the work is based on Spanish melodies. The inspiration lay in the music that Rimsky-Korsakov discovered, in part, on his travels. This will be followed by M. Ravel’s Bolero. Created by the French composer in 1928, the immediate success and rapid universal dissemination of the Bolero, dedicated to the dancer Ida Rubinstein, made it not only one of the composer’s most famous works, but also one of the exponents of 20th century music. To conclude the concert, the Orchestra will perform P. I. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name written (in its first version) in 1869. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
