Ciclo Preludio

Prelude Cycle with the School Choir

Tuesday 21st of January, 2025

12:00h

Auditorio Sony, Madrid

Traditionally, the prelude serves as an introduction and preview of other pieces. In keeping with the name of the series, the young musicians at the Reina Sofía School of Music show their talent in concerts that are open and free to the public, as a prelude to what will be their professional career.

Free entrance until complete capacity.

Ticket booking for Friends of the School: amigos@albeniz.com. Find more information on the Friends Programme here.

This concert will also be live streamed on our Youtube channel.

Program

- MENDELSSOHN, Felix
  - Verleih' uns Frieden for chorus and orchestra in E flat major (chorus and piano reduction)
    - - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director
      - Antonia Valente, Piano

- CASULANA, Maddalena
  - Il secondo libro de madrigali for four voices
    - "Ahi possanza d'amor"
      - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Júlia Sesé Lara, Director

- GUERRERO, Francisco
  - Canciones y villanescas espirituales for three, four and five voices
    - "Todo quanto pudo dar"
      - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Júlia Sesé Lara, Director

- TABAKOVA, Dobrinka
  - Good-will to men, and peace on Earth for mixed choir
    - - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director
      - Antonia Valente, Percusión

- SCHUMANN, Clara
  - Sechs Lieder for voice and piano op 13
    - 1. Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen (H. Heine)
      - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Júlia Sesé Lara, Director
      - Antonia Valente, Piano

- QUILTER, Roger
  - Three Shakespeare Songs for voice and piano op 6
    - 3. Blow, blow, thou winter wind
      - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director
      - Antonia Valente, Piano

- FAURÉ, Gabriel
  - Cantique de Jean Racine for chorus and organ op 11 (version for chorus and piano)
    - - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director
      - Antonia Valente, Piano

- NEES, Vic
  - 5 Motetten for unaccompanied mixed choir
    - 4. De profundis clamavi (Psalmus 129)
      - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director

- POPULAR
  - I've just come from the fountain, traditional Spiritual (arrangement for mixed choir a cappella by A.J. Thomas)
    - - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Júlia Sesé Lara, Director
      - Marc Ferrando Pelegrí, Solista cantante

- TICHELI, Frank Paul
  - Earth Song for mixed choir a cappella
    - - Coro de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
      - Simon Halsey, Director