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Thu 17 Apr

9pm at Palau de la Música Catalana, Sala de Concerts (C/ Sant Pere Més Alt, s/n)  Buy tickets

Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra return to Europe in April 2008, performing 12 concerts in five countries, including a concert at the newly renovated Salle Pleyel in Paris and the esteemed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Two popular guest artists are featured on the CSO European Tour—the Dutch violinist Janine Jansen performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in and Britten’s Violin Concerto, and the Russian pianist Nikolaï Lugansky performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Program in Barcelona
MOZART: The Nights of Figaro (obertura)
TCHAIKOVSKI: Concert for violin Re major, op. 35
SHOSTAKOVITCH: symphony No. 10, in Me minor, op. 93

JANINE JANSEN, Violin
PAAVO JÄRVI, Director

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Mon to Sun from 10am and 8pm Av. de les Drassanes s/n 6,50€

Since 1929, the Museu Marítim de Barcelona (Barcelona Maritime Museum) has built up a major group of collections that are illustrative of the Catalan seafaring culture and which make it easier to understand the factors that have given rise to and the nature of the country’s maritime history.

Highlights of the museum’s resources include the following collections:

1. Model ships
2. Nautical instruments
3. Ex-votos
4. Maritime paintings
5. Figureheads
6. Cartography
7. The replica of the royal galley of Juan de Austria
8. Schooner Santa Eulàlia

Taken from Barcelona Museu Maritim. More info at click here

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* Photo from www.electro-nico.com