Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya

Maria Florea, violin | Isabel Villanueva, viola

Alfons Reverté, orchestra conductor

PROGRAMME

Ramon Carnicer: Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-Flat Major, K. 364/320d / Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major “Eroica”, Op. 55

More than three decades after its last performances (1991 and 1993), still under the name of Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona, and now under the name of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, the Orchestra returns to Torroella de Montgrí to open the 44^th edition of its Festival. And it does so with a programme that presents two works that were decisive in the evolution of their composers: the Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E-flat Major, which marks a turning point in Mozart's work and is a compendium of everything he had achieved so far; and Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major “Eroica”, in which Beethoven definitively breaks away from the limits of classical symphony still present in his first two symphonies.