L'Auditori explores relationship between humans and nature in a new season
Strauss's 'Alpina', Beethoven's 'Pastoral', and Debussy's 'La mer' among 500 new concerts announced
Barcelona concert hall L'Auditori has presented its new season for 2024-2025, which takes as a central theme the relationship between humans and nature over time.
Under the title '(Against) Nature', more than 500 concerts, six festivals, and 15 premieres have been scheduled at the music venue in the Catalan capital.
Huge international names will be performing at L'Auditori in the coming year, such as the Renaud brothers and Gautier Capuçon, the pianists Lucas Debargue and Leif Ove Andsnes, the violinists Frank Peter Zimmermann and Daniel Hope, and cellist Steven Isserlis.
The new 2024-2025 season forms the second part of the artistic story in the form of a diptych that began with 'Power or Revolt'. This year's proposal reflects on the relationship between human artistic creation and nature, a dichotomy explored from history to the present day.
The programme approaches this dynamic from two sides: nature as a source of inspiration, and the growing distance between humans and nature.
The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC, as it's known by its initials in Catalan), under the baton of maestro Ludovic Morlot, will present iconic works such as Strauss's 'Alpina', Beethoven's 'Pastoral', and Debussy's 'La mer'. Stephanie Childress will kick off the season as guest conductor.
The orchestra will visit the famous Easter festival in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, as well as the Lyon Auditorium. In the summer, a second outing has been scheduled to play at the famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
After the success of the first edition, L'Auditori is once again programming four Orchestra Tastings, a cycle of performances that aims to bring the symphony to all audiences. Each session is conceived as a unit that presents a great work preceded by a dramatized piece, which helps to add historic contextualization to the music.
L'Auditori is also committed to foster emerging talent, and this season will give emphasis to two figures with very relevant and complementary profiles: the Swedish composer Lisa Streich and the Catalan composer José Río-Pareja.
In addition, the concert hall is also promoting avant-garde proposals with two specific festivals, the Festival Mixtur and Subsonic Festival, which will feature major names of electronic music, including Ryoji lkeda and Brian Eno.