Concerts February 2008
Sat 2 Feb
Aranjuez – Rodrigo
10:15pm at Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6) 22 to 49€ ServiCaixa.com
RODRIGO: Concert of Aranjuez
RODRIGO: Fantasia for a gentleman
BACARRISSE: Romanza
MORENO: Concert for guitar
Sun 3 Feb
The Four Seasons
6pm at Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6) 22 to 49€ ServiCaixa.com
The 4 Seasons- Vivaldi
Canon – Pachelbel
Adagio – Albinoni
Fri 8 Feb
La Flamme (The Flame)
10pm at Miscelänea (Guardia, 10) General: 4€; Members: 3€
La Flamme is the latest project by the Dutch/French lead singer of the band Shiva Sound.
La Flamme is inspired by French music, harbour music, simple music rooted in Spanish guitar and vocals, occasionally accompanied by a laptop doing bass loops. Although sometimes called downtempo.
Fri 8 Feb
The Mission “Farewell Tour”
8pm at Sala Bikini (Av. Diagonal 537 ) 24 – 30€ Buy tickets
“As previously announced by Wayne, The Mission will embark on their final “farewell” tour across Europe, finishing with four shows in London. This will be the last chance to see the band play. Do not miss out on this last opportunity to see one of the greatest bands on the earth – book now to avoid disappointment!”
(Taken from The Mission)
Sat 9, Tue 13, Sun 17, Thu 21, Mon 25, Fri 29, Feb & Mon 3, Mar
Elektra
At Gran Teatre del Liceu – Barcelona Opera House (La Rambla 51-59) 8,75 to 181,00€ ServiCaixa.com
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss. The plot of Elektra is based upon the great Greek tragedy of the same name by the tragedian Sophocles. The unrelenting gloom and horror that permeate the original play produce, in the hands of Hofmannsthal and Strauss, a drama whose sole theme is revenge.
Clytemnestra, helped by her paramour Aegistheus, has secured the murder of her husband, Agamemnon, and now is afraid that her guilt will be discovered by her children, Elektra, Chrysothemis, and their banished brother Orestes.
Elektra, who is the personification of the passionate lust for vengeance, tries to persuade her timid sister to kill Clytemnestra and Aegistheus. Before the plan is carried out, Orestes, who had been reported as dead, arrives and, upon being told the truth by Elektra, determines upon revenge for his father’s death.
He kills Clytemnestra and Aegistheus; Elektra, in an ecstatic dance of triumph, falls dead in front of her horror-stricken attendants.
Sun 17 Feb
Pluramon with Julee Cruise + Fovea Hex
8pm at Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 113) 15-18€ www.ticktackticket.com www.atrapalo.com
Pluramon, the German band presents their fourth album, The Monstrous Surplus (Karaoke Kalk/PopStock, 2007). Julee Cruise, singer and muse to David Lynch and collaborator of Angelo Badalamenti, the composer of most of Lynch’s soundtracks. Julee Cruise’s ethereal voice helped create the otherworldly, melancholy atmospheres that made Twin Peaks such a remarkable show.
The band Fovea Hex, which includes Irish singer-songwriter Clodagh Simonds amongst its talented members, has caught the attention of renowned musicians like Brian and Roger Eno and Carter Burwell (composer for the Coen Brothers and Spike Jonze).
Thu 21 Feb
Jane Birkin – Rendez-vous
9:30pm at Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6) 18 to 54€ ServiCaixa.com
Jane Birkin (London, 1946) actress, singer, darling of legendary directors Richard Lester and Michelangelo Antonioni, icon of the sixties London scene, lover and muse to artists, musicians and directors, Jane Birkin became the embodiment of an entire era.
In the late 60s, Jane Birkin moved to France where she began a musical and personal relationship that would come to define her for decades to come: her artistic collaboration and romance with French singer and musician Serge Gainsbourg. With her fragile, tentative voice, always on the edge of breaking, became her trademark.
During the 1970s, Birkin starred in 30 movies and recorded 4 highly successful albums.
In 1999, Jane Birkin met musician Djamel Benyelles with whom she reinterpreted some of the songs Gainsbourg had written for her, like Elisa, Couleur Café and Comment te dire adieu. The success of this project was unprecedented, phenomenal.
Sun 24 Feb
Barcelona Jazz Orquestra
8pm at Club Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 113) 10€ Buy tickets
This is the first permanent Jazz Big Band ensemble in the City of Barcelona. It was born in the autumn of 1996 at the Taller de Musics of Barcelona (one of the City’s Music Schools), with the purpose of making Jazz music accessible to all audiences.
The Barcelona Jazz Orchestra mixes tradition and innovation, and is also committed to modernity and the newest tendencies, mixing the classic repertoire – Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie – with the work of contemporary composers and arrangers. (Taken from http://inter-jazz.com)
