Cervera already has the different spaces and equipment ready to accommodate, of the 30 March 8 d'abril, the 13th edition of the Easter Festival, Everything is ready for the 12th edition of the Easter Festival.
The first week of musical activity will begin, Thursday 30 March, with the traditional concert aimed at school audiences. This year, at the Gran Teatre de La Passion you can see the show "By the wayside”, by the company Eix Creatiu -born from the union of Fadunito and OA2 Produccions-. Hundreds of schoolchildren from La Segarra and other nearby counties will be able to see a large format assembly that talks about the excessive use of plastics and that has 17 artists on stage between musicians and actors.
The same show can be seen again on the same day at 20 hours, in a new function open to the rest of the public.
The opening concert of the Festival will take place on Saturday, 1 d'abril, also at 20 hours. As in all editions of the contest, will be the Julià Carbonell Orchestra the person in charge of this official opening. He will do it under the direction of Alfons Reverté and with the program "Music and Exile".
As explained by the artistic director of the Festival, Jordi Armengol, in "Catalonia of the 19th and 20th centuries, many musicians (and artists in general) they suffered exile due to political issues and commitment to their ideals. The first three composers we will hear in this concert are good examples of this". De Carnicer will perform his opening for the Barcelona premiere of the opera "The Barber of Seville"; of Pahissa we will discover the most interesting "Suite Intertonal" and Casals la sardana Sant Martí del Canigó. Besides, to close the concert the OJC will offer us the "Simfonia Esparsa" by Manuel Oltra, where his great intellect is revealed·compositional intelligence.
The next day, Sunday 2 d'abril, it will be the turn of Cor Madrigal. Choral music is, certainly, one of the basic pillars of the musical tradition in Catalonia. As Armengol explains, this concert "takes us on a journey that begins with two premieres by Joan Magrané and Albert Guinovart and ends a century ago with the modernism of Enric Morera". According to the Festival's artistic director, this is "a good opportunity to enjoy the extraordinary richness of our choral music".
The Cerverí competition also includes several side activities·leles. Catalan Classical Music Festival, we will be able to enjoy the exhibition"One hundred years of the Work of the Popular Songwriter of Catalonia”. The exhibition will open on Saturday 1 of April with a conference by its commissioner, James Ayats, them 17,30 hours at the Cervera Museum.
The Work of the Popular Songwriter of Catalonia, promoted by cultural patron Rafael Patxot, it is probably the collection project·most ambitious folklore lesson carried out in Catalan history. The main objective was to recover, study and return to the Catalan people their own musical corpus. The exhibition is a synthesis of the turbulent history of this great project: its genesis, characteristics and evolution, its breakdown at the outbreak of war and, finally, the recovery of the materials kept by the Patxot family.
A festival divided into two weeks of programming
The second week will start with the tasting concert also by Lluís Capdevila, with the presentation of his new album "Lament". The program will continue the following days with the tenor Roger Padullés and the pianist Francisco Poyato that will bring us "The songs of Pau Casals"; Roger Illa will interpret with a fortepiano the program "La música para tecla del XVIII and XIX Catalan. emigration, exile, duel and return"; Kebyart Ensemble will bring to Cervera "Memory"; Nexus Piano Duo the program "A piano and four hands"; he Athena Quartet “From Quito to St.. Petersburg passant per Barcelona”; i l’Catalan Baroque Orchestra will close the festival with "The splendor of the Catalan baroque".
The artistic director, Jordi Armengol, highlights that in this edition the Easter Festival will be commemorated on 50th anniversary of the death of Pau Casals i, while emphasizing the exile suffered by one of our most universal composers and performers, the contest will value the work of exiled or emigrated musicians of any era.
This way, two guiding threads will run through the programming of this year's Festival: the music and life of Pau Casals and the work of exiled or emigrated musicians of any era. In the repertoire of each concert, worked together with each of the performers, there will be at least one piece by the following thirteen composers: the Ramon Carnicer exiles, Francesc Andreví, Jaume Pahissa, Pau Casals, Montserrat Campmany, Baltasar Samper and Robert Gerhard and the emigrants Manuel and Josep Pla, Domènec Terradellas, Lluís Benejam, Narcís Bonet and Moisès Bertran.
The Festival is organized by the Paeria de Cervera and is a meeting point for the classical music sector in Catalonia and a showcase of classical music that is made in Catalonia. It has the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat through the ICEC and the Diputació de Lleida through the IEI.
Advance tickets on sale
All people who want to enjoy the 15 concerts scheduled in this year's contest, they can now purchase their seats through the web: festivalpasqua.cat.
As usual, early purchase is rewarded with several benefits. One of the most prominent is the discount of more than one 20% in its price, since of 18 euros for the evening concerts at the box office, is passed to 14 euros if you pay in advance via the web. Paral·lelament, tickets for the morning concerts can also be purchased in advance for only 6 euros.
Festival tickets are also on sale, so, those interested in attending more than one concert can choose to purchase a pass that will allow them to see all the concerts in the event for just 70 euros, which supposes a 40% discount. There are also specific tickets to enjoy the evening concerts for only 55 euros. The morning concerts also have their own ticket, which allows you to enjoy two different concerts for yourself 10 euros.
Catalan Classical Music Festival, the organization renews agreements with various entities and organizations such as the Carnet Jove, the TRESC Club and various media, others, to offer discounts among its subscribers. They also enjoy significant bonuses in col·"Appropa Cultura" class, the majors of 65 years and single-parent and/or large families. Remember that the different discount options (early entry or through these rebates with media entities or subscribers) they are not cumulative with each other.
Strong commitment to bringing Catalan classical music closer to the youngest
In this policy of making Catalan classical music accessible to all levels of society, the Easter Festival also wants to pay special attention to the youngest. For this reason, the evening concerts will have a price of only 6 euros for minors 18 years and of 2 euros in the case of morning concerts.
Information provided by the Easter Festival Press Service.