Cordova/The Córdoba Orchestra seeks to return to the origins with Essencehis season of concerts for 2024-2025, which will start next September at the Góngora Theater. It will also be the debut season of the new chief conductor of the Orchestra, Salvador Vázquez, and of Roberto Pálmer as manager of the musical training after the restructuring of the board of directors and a time marked by uncertainty. The season also comes with changes in bonuses, prices and discounts and, again, with the aim of attracting young people to the city’s classical music scene.
The Cultural Delegate of the Provincial Council, Gabriel Duque; the president of the Córdoba Orchestra Consortium, Juan Miguel Moreno; the main and artistic director of the formation, Salvador Vázquez; the manager, Roberto Pálmer, and the general secretary for Culture of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports, José Ángel Vélez, have been in charge of presenting the program, which includes 12 subscription concertsthree extraordinary concerts and three family concerts for the entire season, until May 2025.
The change has meant a return to the essence to start this new stage, they said during the presentation of the new season that, through the most classic repertoire, it presents up to 11 first reading works for the Córdoba Orchestra or the premiere of the young woman from Córdoba María Jesús Amaro, as well as great guests who will walk through the concert repertoire, a catalog that they have described as quite Central European.
The concerts
He first concert The subscription will be on Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11 and is titled The year 1808. Two soloists from the orchestra will perform, Isel Rodríguez on violin and Nazaret Kiourtkchian on double bass. can be heard The sold bride by Smetana or Beethoven’s symphony number 5. The next one is called Introspection and vitality and is directed by Francisco Valero-Terribas and is the debut of María Jesús Amaro from Córdoba with Le reve de Daphné. On Thursday, November 7, the Classics but not too much with Alexander Da Costa as violinist and conductor and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5.
He fourth subscription concert, Traced paths, will be for Pablo González as conductor and Beethoven’s 2nd symphony, in a relationship with Brahms’ 2nd symphony. Thursday the 12th and Friday the 13th of December is Eternal glory as a tribute to Giacomo Puccini and his symphonic prelude. Among the guests are the tenor Enrique Parra, the baritone Alfonso Mujica, the Opera Choir directed by Alejandro Muñoz and Salvador Vázquez as the orchestra director. The sixth subscription will open in 2025 on January 23 and 24 and is titled Dear teacher… a program in honor of the Spanish composer and conductor Lorenzo Palomo and The Garden of Bacchus. Conrado Moya will be the guest.
On Thursday, February 6, Robert Schumann’s Symphony Number 4 and Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra will be heard. The Cordoban Emin Kiourktchian will play the piano and Manuel Hernández Silva will be the director. The most Spanish part of the repertoire will arrive on Thursday, February 27 with Forge Identities. The Gran Teatro will receive the singer Rocío Bazán. The orchestra will recover the Suite for orchestra by Rosa García Ascot and will offer a Spanish song repertoire ancient.
Reminiscences of highlands It will be the ninth subscription concert, Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21. Javier Comesaña will be on the violin and Salvador Vázquez will be conducting. The public will be able to hear the Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra by Max Bruch and Symphony No. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn. The following week Córdoba will receive a very young pianist Alexandra Dovgan, who at just 17 years old is already described as “an exceptional pianist with an overwhelming talent.” The penultimate installment will have Teresa Riveiro Bohm as director and Adolgo Gutiérrez on cello. The Córdoba Orchestra will close its season with three pieces of French inspiration with soprano Natalia Labourdette and conducted by Catherine Larsen-Maguire.
The extraordinary concerts There will be three, one at Christmas at the Góngora Theater on Thursday, December 19 with the soprano Leonor Bonilla and adaptations of popular music of the time, the one at Alño Nuevo, on Wednesday, January 1 and Thursday, January 2, 2025 at the Gran Teatro at 8:00 p.m. with lyrical music from the zarzuela and Holy Week, which will be on April 10 and will include the soprano Lucía Tavira, the baritone Javier Povedano and the performance of the Ziryab Choir, who will provide the public with brotherly music by composers from Córdoba such as Antonio Moreno Pozo or Antonio Moral Jurado.
Likewise, there will be held three family concerts. The first will be on February 2 with Lolo Fernández as narrator and Salvador Vázquez in the direction, the second on Sunday, March 30 with Ana Hernández as narrator, who will add a touch of humor, and Edmon Levon in the direction. Finally, Belén Otxotorena in the narration and Jhoanna Sierralta in the direction will present Leonora and the sixty coffee beans.
Subscriptions and price changes
The price proposal has been approved at the Governing Council this Wednesday. They have updated prices of the individual seats, which have increased in price and are divided according to the areas of the theater, taking into account the demand and the influx on days such as Thursday or Friday, as explained by the manager, Roberto Pálmer.
Now there will only be two types of fertilizer, the full subscriptions, for 12 concerts, have a 20% discount on the general price and have been updated according to the configuration of the theater, as detailed by the manager, while the second option is the subscription for half of the concerts, six, that “we lowered the price more because we have perceived a clear lack of public influx on Fridays”, he highlighted and assured that “if you buy an economic zone the ticket does not even reach 4 euros.” The approximate savings are more than 9% compared to last year, without applying discounts, according to Pálmer’s calculations.
The intention of the Córdoba Orchestra “is to create new audiences and renew the public” and, therefore, “we are going to target young people, but also children so that they can go as a family and it does not involve a great financial effort” . For this reason, the entrance fee for family concerts will be unified at 8 euros. It maintains the 50% discount for youth and the age limit is extended to 35 years for all season tickets, including single seats. For seniors, unemployed people and season ticket holders, the 10% discount on season tickets and 15% on other seats will remain.
