Music plays among the works of Marès

Five small-format concerts form part of the programme of the 8th "Musicant el Museu Frederic Marès" cycle, the first of which will take place on 19 February and the last on 18 June. This year's edition, as announced by the organisers, aims to focus on the gender perspective and the contemporary revision of early music. The cycle is organised by the Marès in collaboration with the Esmuc.

The fire will be opened by the harpist Esther Pinyol, who will perform scores by Bach, Albéniz and John Thomas in the museum's Sala Femenina. The evening is entitled Clotilda Cerdà, the visionary harpist. Cerdà was a composer, pedagogue and early harpist known by the stage name of Esmeralda Cervantes. The second concert will take place on 19 March, in this case with the pianist Carles Marigó. In Room 14 of the Marès, he will play works by Pablo Bruna, Antonio de Cabezón, Bach, Magrané and also his own. The title of the concert: The voice that counts.

The third event, also in Hall 14, will be on 16 April, with the participation of Ana Nicolás (conductor, percussion and voice), Montserrat Isanta (voice), Jacqueline Bordón (traverso and percussion), Luis Manuel Vicente (viola da arco) and Jeremy Nastasi (viola de mano). They will perform a repertoire of anonymous Renaissance songbooks. The penultimate concert of the cycle, Alícia / Victòria, will be performed in the museum's studio-library by students of the Esmuc's Master's Degree in Lied, coordinated by Assumpta Mateu. The works to be heard are by Antoni Lliteres, Enric Granados, Xavier Montsalvatge, Manuel de Falla and Alícia de Larrocha. Finally, on 18 June, music will take to the courtyard of the Museu Frederic Marès, where students of jazz, flamenco, modern and roots music from the Esmuc will take to the stage under the coordination of Ignasi Zamora. The show is called Meeting Point, with a repertoire featuring songs by The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, among many others.

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