Concert at L’Auditori "Falla’s Atlántida"
8 November 2026 · 11:00
Centre Cívic La Sedeta, el Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova, Gràcia
La cathédrale engloutie is the poetic title of one of Claude Debussy's piano preludes —literally, “the sunken cathedral”—, heard here in José Luis Turina's recent and imaginative orchestration, which transfers one of the French composer's most evocative visions to the symphonic realm: the music progresses slowly, as though sketching the image of a submerged building amid resonances and dreamlike harmonies. Using similar musical tools, La mer unfolds as an orchestral fresco of great timbral richness: the movement of the water can almost be perceived thanks to the breadth of its sonic imagination. Debussy builds a sensory experience based on colour, light and continuous flow; an experience that gives way, in the second half of the concert, to Manuel de Falla's great staged cantata Atlántida. Ernesto Halffter completed the monumental and visionary work —based on the poem by Jacint Verdaguer— that Falla left unfinished. The music projects its mythical and spiritual ideal through the score's expressive richness, incorporating choir and contributions from outstanding soloists such as Nuria Rial, Maite Beaumont and José Antonio López, under Kent Nagano's direction of the Orquesta y Coro…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026