This April, Radio Clásica is broadcasting four concerts recorded at L’Auditori de Barcelona in 2020. The performances, which you can listen to every Sunday in April at 8 pm, feature a repertoire ranging from baroque to new music, as well as exploring L’Auditori’s various programme series, such as the OBC, the Festival Llums d’Antiga and the Beethoven 2020 Festival.

The soloists performing in the concerts include, among others, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, violist Antoine Tamestit, clarinettist Joan Enric Lluna and harpsichordist Justin Taylor, conducted by Kazushi Ono, Giedrė Šlekytė and Dani Espasa.

In the first concert, to be held on Sunday, 4 April at 8 pm, Radio Clásica listeners will be able to enjoy the performance given by harpsichordist Justin Taylor on 11 February 2020 at the Chapel of Santa Àgata as part of the Festival Llums d’Antiga. A concert with works by Scarlatti, Soler and Ligeti.

The following Sunday, 11 April at 8 pm, it is the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra’s turn with one of the concerts recorded last summer behind closed doors in Hall 1, Pau Casals. Listeners can enjoy works by Handel, Ligeti and Britten with Dani Espasa as conductor and Vlad Stanculeasa as concertmaster.

The next concert, recorded during the current season, will be broadcast on Sunday, 18 April, with the OBC conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė for the first time, and featuring the violist Antoine Tamestit. A programme with music by Pla, Telemann, Ligeti, Brahms and Kodály.

The last concert of the month, to be broadcast on 25 April at 8 pm, will relive one of the highlights of the Beethoven Festival held last year at L’Auditori de Barcelona. Guy Braunstein on the violin, Alisa Weilerstein on the cello, Inon Barnatan on the piano and Joan Enric Lluna on the clarinet will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto as well as the premiere of a piece by Mauricio Sotelo, all this under the baton of Kazushi Ono.