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Starting this February and running until June, the Museu is presenting a new collaboration with the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) music school, specifically with its Early Music Department. The series Connecta’t a l’Antiga (Get in Touch with Early Music), is an initiative open to all audiences, but aimed especially at young students from music conservatories and schools who, being in advanced courses, have the opportunity to focus their studies on Early Music. The five sessions, scheduled for one Saturday per month in the afternoon, are designed to draw attention to this period in music history and feature, as highlighted in the subtitle of the series, ‘the most original performers’, alluding to the search for the original sound through performance with historical criteria. The five thought-provoking programmes will be dedicated to great works from composers such as Haydn, Handel, Purcell and Telemann, conducted by well-established professors from the ESMUC’s Early Music Department. Musicians such as Manfredo Kraemer, Emmanuel Balssa, Lorenzo Coppola, Alba Roca, Dani Espasa and Lluís Coll, accompanied by their students, will show off the grandness and richness, the strength and subtlety of a performance world that looks to the past to revisit it in a truly modern way. Creativity and excitement provided by the voices and instruments of the ESMUC in the perfect setting of the Museu de la Música’s Sala de Teclats auditorium. A new opportunity to discover the treasures of Early Music as intensely and closely as possible.

The detailed programme is below:

CONNECTA’T A L’ANTIGA

With the most original performers from the ESMUC

Each musical note is a riddle that hides its mystery by offering a thousand possible solutions. At the ESMUC Early Music Department, we like to solve the puzzles of music history by playing, singing, improvising... and always investigating the original sources. The documented originality of our voices and our instruments would be of no use, however, if we weren’t also original in the other sense of the word, that which refers to the creative fantasy that seeks excitement from all the notes played in a concert: we imagine the sounds of the past to create the new sounds of the present.

Saturday, 24 February 2018 / Haydn: complicitats amb l’oient
Lorenzo Coppola conducts the chamber music of an inventor of classicism

Saturday, 10 March 2018 / Streams of pleasure ever flowing
Dani Espasa conducts the voices and orchestra of Handel
 

Saturday, 7 April 2018 / Una orquestra per a la Reina de les Fades
The magic of Purcell conducted by Alba Roca
 

Saturday, 5 May 2018 / Telemann passat per aigua
A grand orchestral suite conducted by Manfredo Kraemer

Saturday, 2 June 2018 / Consorts versus Ministrers
Viols and wind instruments conducted by Emmanuel Balssa and Lluís Coll

Time: 5:30 pm
Venue: Sala de Teclats
Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Price: Museum ticket (includes a visit to the Museu on the same day and another visit can be made before 31/08).
Tickets are available from the museum reception and via www.barcelona.cat/museumusica
A production by the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC)
Organised by the Museu de la Música