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Richard Wagner conceived his lyric dramas as total works of art, intended to counteract the clichés of nineteenth-century Italian opera, especially bel canto. You will often hear this music in concert format but, even if the works are not staged, they can be very moving.

The first part opens with the overture to Rienzi, one of the German composer’s early operas, but one which bears the stamp of his work. A further attraction in Broton’s program is the first performance of his Violin Concerto arranged for wind orchestra, with Mallorcan violinist Francisco Fullana as soloist.

In the second part of the concert, the Symphonic Band, conducted by Salvador Brotons, performs the overture to Tannhäuser and fragments of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg), music that transports us to an unmistakably Wagnerian world of sound.

Program

• Richard Wagner: Rienzi, overture (1840) 12’
• Salvador Brotons: Concerto for violin and wind orchestra (2022) 18’ – World premiere of the wind orchestra version
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg). Three fragments from the third act (1868) 14’
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, overture (1843-1845) 14’

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