Expectation

We begin with an unprecedented proposal: a hidden programme. The audience will only know that it includes the premiere of the first work from the Elkano project, which will be part of the Orchestra repertoire for three years – the same time it took the Basque navigator to complete the first circumnavigation of the globe half a millennium ago. Navigare necesse est by Mikel Chamizo confines itself to the initial stages of this odyssey, observing the fears, hopes and expectations that those sailors who started the journey into the unknown must have experienced.

Taking inspiration from that idea, Robert Trevino invites the audience to join a musical journey of discovery, through five works whose titles will be unveiled at the end of the concert. For this adventure, the Orchestra will have exceptional company: the Bilbao Choral Society, a great defender of the new Basque music, and the soprano Mojca Erdmann, a leading interpreter of the German repertoire, with whom the Orchestra carried out its recent tour of Germany and Austria. The expectation could hardly be greater.