Walton and Rachmaninoff with the OCNE
On October 16, 17 and 18, David Afkham leads Orquesta Nacional de España in their own Sala Sinfónica, followed by two additional concerts on October 23 and 24 at Valencia’s {…}
On October 16, 17 and 18, David Afkham leads Orquesta Nacional de España in their own Sala Sinfónica, followed by two additional concerts on October 23 and 24 at Valencia’s {…}
On September 18 and 19, David Afkham joins forces with pianist Garrick Ohlsson and the San Francisco Symphony to explore the musical orbit of Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert’s Symphony {…}
On July 19, David Afkham leads the Orquesta Nacional de España at the BBC Proms, with a program that features Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, de Falla’s Fantasía bætica, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with guitarist Rafael Aguirre. After the intermission, they will play de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos’s Suites {…}
The next concerts with David Afkham at the helm of the OCNE take place on May 15, 16 and 17. The evenings will start with Conrado del Campo’s Divina Comedia, a symphonic poem imbued with an unmistakably Wagnerian orchestral language. It tells the tale of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo, {…}
To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth and the 80th anniversary of his death, on April 24, 25 and 26, David Afkham conducts some of Falla’s lesser-known compositions, leading the OCNE in La Fantasía bætica in a new orchestration by Francisco Coll, and the suite Homenajes. The programme is completed {…}
On February 21 and 27, David Afkham returns to the pit of Berlin’s Deutsche Oper to conduct Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy, Elektra. Catherine Foster sings the title role, Karita Mattila is Klytämnestra, Flurina Stucki is Chrysothemis, Burkhard Ulrich is Aegisth and Tobias Kehrer is Orest.The production by Kirsten Harms aims {…}