SUBSCRIBE TO A SEASON FULL OF GREAT EMOTIONS
SEASON 25/26
The Basque National Orchestra remains faithful to its calling to offer society tools for reflection, the formation of a critical spirit and a conscience that enhances the freedom of individual and collective thought. That is why for this new season we are drawing new arguments from our vast musical literature to serve as a guide and discursive support for our mission. We will see examples of struggle, of denunciation and resistance, stories of a journey and an end, of dream and awakening, all throughout a Concert Season that will also appeal to the memory of Ravel, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, and of Arriaga, on the 200th anniversary of his death.
These arguments always implicitly involve a part of discovery, taking shape with composers such as Fazil Say and Franz Schmidt, and with works such as Berlioz's Herminie, Franck's Symphonic Variations and Bach's Ich habe genug. And there is also another part in which we revisit, for example, Respighi and Strauss’s major works and a return also, for example, to Tchaikovsky and Bartok or Rachmaninoff with their most popular and occasionally also most difficult works. Ravel on both sides of the Pyrenees, Arriaga, Sorozábal, Bernaola and Ibarrondo will appear during Season of a Basque orchestra, a country orchestra, which relies on its roots to display itself to the world.
The conceptualisation on which the programme is based will also feature a wide range of artists. Together with the Basque National Orchestra, we will enjoy a Season with a very feminine, highly choral, very youthful, powerful and deeply rooted vision. All of these characteristics will make each musical experience a boost of energy and transforming capacity. The voices of Miren Urbieta-Vega, Sofía Esparza, Elena Sancho Pereg and Marifé Nogales and Marta Zabaleta on piano represent a large part of the qualities of this new programme. Also the choral voices of Landarbaso, Orfeón Donostiarra and Vocalia Taldea. And the careers of soloists such as Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Bomsori, Camille Thomas, Nikolai Lugansky and Johannes Moser. This magnificent cast of artists will be enhanced by guest conductors such as Ana María Patiño, Katharina Müllner, Joana Carneiro, Jaime Martín, Michal Nesterowicz and Riccardo Frizza.