The National Center for Musical Diffusion (CNDM), a unit dependent on the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), proposes an extensive program for its 12th season that maintains its mission of recovery and dissemination of historical heritage and cultured music popular roots, such as flamenco and jazz, as well as support for current creation and the development of new audiences through various activities. The season will consist of 216 concerts and 58 training activities in Madrid and 28 other Spanish cities.
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The institution proposes three transversal cycles that run through the entire program: one commemorates the eight centuries of the birth of Alfonso X el Sabio. Throughout the season, various Spanish ensembles, including that of the famous director and violagambist Jordi Savall, will offer concerts throughout the peninsular geography that celebrate that anniversary. Another cycle vindicates Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, a Spanish composer of sacred and theatrical music. Finally, the harpsichordist and organist Benjamin Alard will offer three recitals that complete a cycle around the keyboard literature published during Johann Sebastian Bach’s lifetime. In addition to the premiere of 48 new scores, almost half commissioned by the CNDM, another 54 compositions from the Spanish musical heritage will be recovered and will see the light updated. Among them stands out The Nitetti, an opera by Niccolò Conforto ―Neapolitan composer installed at the Madrid court―, shown for the first time in 1756 as a birthday present from Bárbara de Braganza to her husband, King Ferdinand VI.
This opera will be offered in concert version by the Nereydas ensemble, under the direction of Javier Ulises Illán and starring a cast of national voices such as María Espada, Núria Rial, and Lucía Caihuela. You will also see its premiere in modern times works by Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Francisco Corselli and José de Nebra, among others. In addition, the institution has unveiled a staff of essential artists of various genres, such as Philippe Jaroussky, one of the most famous countertenors in the world; the maestro René Jacobs with the Freiburger Barockorchester offering a special and little frequented title by Antonio Caldara (Magdalene at the feet of Christ); William Christie, undisputed name of European early music at the head of Les Arts Florissants.
In the lyrical field, other important milestones will be presented: Radamisto by Handel with Il Pomo d’Oro and Jaroussky with a cast of great voices; the Orfeo of Monteverdi interpreted by the tenor Ian Bostridge next to the Gallant Europe of Fabio Biondi; the Amadigi di Gaula of Haendel with Xavier Sabata and Núria Rial; Les Arts Florissants will bring a Haendelian oratory: The Merry, the Pensive and the Moderate. You will also hear the Mass in E minor de Johann Sebastian Bach, por el Balthasar Neumann ensemble and choir, dirigido por Thomas Hengelbrock.
Come back too Jazz in the AuditoriumUp to four concerts in the Symphony Hall have been scheduled this season, starring three improvisational divas: Madeleine Peyroux, Dianne Reeves and Cécile McLorin Salvant. The fourth concert will star Andrea Motis, one of the most dazzling talents of native jazz. In the Chamber Room they await proposals such as the dialogue between Enrico Rava (trumpet) and Fred Hersch (piano); the Enrico Pieranunzi concert with Eurostars Trio; Antonio Serrano Quartet with Clazzical together with Albert Sanz (piano), Toño Miguel (double bass) and Stephen Keogh (drums), or Artemis, a band formed entirely by women and led by the pianist Renee Rosnes. The constellation of stars continues with Chano Domínguez, a decisive musician in the aesthetics of jazz-flamenco and the double bass player Christian McBride in quintet format together with Inside Straight.
In this installment, the resident composer will be Mauricio Sotelo (Madrid, 1961), a creator who moves in balance between the most avant-garde languages and the most traditional textures, especially that of flamenco expression. In this new season we will be able to learn more about the powerful sound universe of this artist through a large number of his works, including 4 absolute premieres. In the Auditorium 400 of the Reina Sofía Museum the public will be able to enjoy a selection of his works, including several absolute premieres, commissioned by the CNDM.
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