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Music in the Mountains Programme July–November 2009

The "'Music in the Mountains" festival is a series of predominantly classical concerts taking place in and around the seven picturesque white villages of La Tahá in the Alpujarras, in the south of Spain.

Spanish Guitar

RUI NAMORA and GIL FESCH

Spanish music: Falla, Albéniz, Turina etc, and the musical suite "Platero y yo"

Thursday, 9th July

20:30 h

Plaza de Gerald Brenan, Fondales

Friday, 10th July

22:00 h

Salón de actos del Ayuntamiento, Pitres

Saturday, 11th July

21:00 h

Alexander Music School, Ferreirola

Folk Fusion

POTATO POTATO (Band from Oxford)

Saturday, 11th July

22:00 h

Tinao de Calle Soledad, Ferreirola

Sunday, 12th July

20:00 h

Era de Mecina

Classical Music

SHAN SHAN (piano) and FRANCISCO J. CANTÓ (clarinet)

Fantasy by Schumann OP 73

Friday, 17th July

22:30 h

Alexander Music School, Ferreirola

Concerts in the Plazas and Eras

QUINTESSENTIAL QUARTET, KLAARTJE VAN VELDHOVEN (soprano), JOSÉ MANUEL MUŃOZ (clarinet), REMBRANDT FRERICHS (piano),
and MUSICIANS OF LA TAHÁ

Classical and Traditional Music

Thursday, 23rd July

20:00 h

Era de Capilerilla

Thursday, 23rd July

22:00 h

Plaza de Gerald Brenan, Fondales

Friday, 24th July

20:00 h

Cortijo Opazo, Atalbéitar

Friday, 24th July

22:00 h

Iglesia Parroquial de San Roque, Pitres. The "Choir of La Tahá" will also perform at this concert.

Saturday, 25th July

22:00 h

Alexander Music School, Ferreirola

Music by Klezmer

BORIS (violin) and FRANK (accordion)

Traditional Jewish Folk Music

Friday, 7th August

22:00 h

Plaza de Atalbéitar

Saturday, 8th August

22:00 h

Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Pitres

Choir of La Tahá

The choir will sing religious tunes during High Mass in las Fiestas Patronales of San Roque (Pitres) and of La Santa Cruz (Ferreirola)

Sunday, 16th August

13:00 h

Iglesia Parroquial, Pitres

Saturday, 22nd August

--:-- h

Iglesia Parroquial, Ferreirola

Music for the Sierra Nevada

Concerts to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Natural Park of Sierra Nevada and to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Law to Protect Natural Spaces in Andalucía.

ORCHESTRA and CHOIR OF MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS
BERNARD GREGOR-SMITH (cello) and YOLANDE WRIGLEY (piano)

50 musicians and 100 singers will perform the Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven

Wednesday, 19th August

22:00 h

Plaza de la Iglesia, Mecina

Thursday, 20th August

20:00 h

Cello-Piano Duo,
Era de Capilerilla

 

21:00 h

Music and poems while strolling down from Capilerilla to Pitres

 

22:00 h

Cello-Piano Duo, followed by a concert by the Symphony Orchestra and Choirs in la Plaza de La Alpujarra, Pitres

Friday, 21 de August

20:00 h

Cello-Piano Duo,
Plaza de Ferreirola

 

21:00 h

Music and poems while strolling through the streets of Mecina

 

22:00 h

Cello-Piano Duo, followed by a concert by the Symphony Orchestra and Choirs in la Plaza de La Iglesia, Mecina

Spanish Classical Music

FRANCISCO J. CANTÓ TORILLO (clarinet) and ISOLDA CRESPI (piano)

Friday, 4th September

21:00 h

Alexander Music School, Ferreirola

Saturday, 5th September

21:00 h

Salón de actos del Ayuntamiento, Pitres

Music for “All Saints' Day”

PABLO MARTOS (violin)

Violin solos, by J.S. Bach

Saturday, 31st October

19:00 h

Iglesia Parroquial, Ferreirola

Sunday, 1st November

19:00 h

Iglesia Parroquial, Pitres

Accommodation

For places to stay during the Music in the Mountains festival, see local accommodation available in the Alpujarras.

     
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