Cor de Cambra
Judici a Gesualdo
The Chamber Choir of the Palau, conducted by Xavier Puig, together with pianist and improviser Marco Mezquida, present a unique performance: the trial that Gesualdo never faced in his lifetime. In this staging, the lawyer and the prosecutor confront arguments about musical modernity, the value of dissonance, and creative freedom, while the music —the composer’s madrigals and responsories— becomes the true voice of both defense and prosecution.
Una Schubertíada
A proposal that recreates the soirées organized by Schubert in early 19th-century Vienna, at the home of the Sonnleithner family, where singing, poetry recitation, and the creation of pictorial works took place in an irreproducible artistic environment. A staged proposal with stage direction by Anna Romaní and the participation of actor Bernat Cot, featuring choral music and lieder by Schubert, as well as works by Haydn, Beethoven, or Rossini. This performance brings together music, theater, poetry, and painting around the music of the great master of poetic song.
La Generació C
Contemporary Catalan choral composers. A fourfold C for a group of talents that serves as a meeting point, a space for growth and recognition of a golden generation. Quality, identity, and the building of the choral music of the future for our country. Three proposals to accompany this path that connects with the founding spirit of the Orfeó Català and the Palau.
Canto la lluita i l’amor
A concert that celebrates the figure of Joan Salvat-Papasseit through poems set to music by a wide range of composers, from Manuel Oltra to Joan Manuel Serrat, including Xavier Sans, Feliu Gasull, and Carles Prat, with a premiere by Anna Campmany. A concert where Salvat’s poetry intertwines with contemporary Catalan choral music.
Un cant a la natura, un crit a la terra
The Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana presents "A Song to Nature. A Cry from the Earth." A concert that aims to be a praise and exaltation of nature, a source of inspiration for composers throughout history. At a time when humanity is putting the planet at risk, this proposal is a celebration of the beauty of the world and also a call to action to highlight, through 20th-century choral works, that the Earth is tired and we must take care of it.
El cançoner popular contemporani
As part of the celebration of the centenary of the Cançoner Popular, and with the aim of connecting past and present, conductor Xavier Puig together with musicologist Jaume Ayats have put together a program of works collected in the Cançoner that have been arranged for choir by contemporary, active composers.