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Free concerts by National Symphony Orchestra - 2011 Season

The National Symphony Orchestra continues with its series of outstanding concerts, that will take place throughout the year, all of them with free entrance.

For all the concerts at Auditorio de Belgrano, free tickets must be picked up on the same day of each performance, at the Auditorium, 10 am to 1 pm, and 4 pm to 8 pm.

APRIL 2011

Friday 15, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Emir Saúl, director
Xavier Inchausti, violin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concert for violin and orchestra in D major, opus 35
Johannes Brahms: Symphony Nº 2, in D major, opus 73

Friday 29, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Mónica Sardi: mezzosoprano
Coro Polifónico Nacional
Gilardo Gilardi: Obertura Tritemática
Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody for contralto, male choir and orchestra
Piotr Ilych Tchaicowsky: Symphony “Manfredo”, opus 58

MAY 2011

Friday 6, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Andrés Spiller, director
Coro Polifónico Nacional (female choir)
Tomás Alegre, piano
Luis Mucillo: Mabinogion "Suite for orchestra, from ancient Welsh stories" (2010) - premiere in Buenos Aires
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: concert for piano and orchestra, in D minor K 466
Claude Debussy: Three nocturnes, for female choir and orchestra
Maurice Ravel: Spanish Rhapshody

Friday 13, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Luis Gorelik, director
Gastón Frossio, horn
Gerardo Gandini: Variations for orchestra (1962)
Richard Strauss, concert for horn and orchestra Nº 1, in E flat major, opus 11
Bela Bartok: Concert for orchestra

Friday 20, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director – 3-
Alicia Nafé, mezzosoprano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony Nº 36 " Linz", in C major, K 425
Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Manuel de Falla: Seven popular Spanish songs, verssion Luciano Berio
Maurice Ravel: Dafnis and Cloé, orchestral suite nº 2

Friday 27, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
CONCERT "DIRECCION NACIONAL DE ARTES"
Homage to the Bicentennial of Paraguay
Program and artists to be determined

JUNE 2011

Friday 3, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Anton Bruckner; Symphony Nº 5

Friday 10, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Bruno Gelber, piano
Gustav Mahler Symphony Nº 10, in F-Sharp major (original verssion)
Arnold Schoenberg: Five pieces opus 16
Sergei Rachmaninoff: concert for piano and orchestra Nº 3, in D minor, op. 30

Friday 17, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
International Music Festival Instituto Di Tella
Alejo Pérez, director
Elías Gurevich, violin
Rafael Aponte Ledee: “Elegía”
Armando Krieger: “Ostinato”
Jorge Antunes: “Tartinia” for violin and orchestra
Alejandro Nuñez Allauca: “Concierto ornamental”
Eduardo Kusnir: “La gran panadería”

Friday 24, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
International Music Festival Instituto Di Tella
Alfredo Rugeles, director
Jorge Sarmientos, director
Alain Huteau, marimba
Blas Emilio Atehortua : “Estudios sinfónicos op.36”
Jorge Sarmientos: “Concierto para marimba y orquesta”
Gabriel Brncic : “Volveremos a las montañas”
Mariano Etkin: “Música ritual”
Alberto Villalpando: “Las transformaciones del agua y del fuego en las montañas”

JULY 2011

Friday 1, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Gustav Mahler Symphony Nº 3, in D minor
Lucila Ramos Mañé, mezzosoprano
Coro Polifónico Nacional (female choir) and Coro Nacional de Niños

Friday 8, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Alejo Pérez, director
Ralph Votapek, piano
Susana Caligaris, soprano
Dante Grela:" Continuar esperando" (2011), for soprano, orchestra and electro acoustic sounds - World Premiere
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Claude Debussy: “La mer”

Friday 15, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Franz Schubert “Death and the Maiden”, verssion Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss: Thus spoke Zaratustra

AUGUST 2011

Friday 5, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
José María Sciutto, director
Soledad de la Rosa, soprano
Alejandra Malvino, mezzo
Ricardo Gonzalez Dorrego, tenor
Lucas Debevec Mayer, bass-baritone
Coro Polifónico Nacional
Luis Bacalov: Suite Baires
Franz Joseph Haydn: Misa de Santa Cecilia

Friday 12, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Jinjoo Cho, violin
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Pablo Sarasate: Fantasia Carmen
Hector Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony, opus 14

Friday 19, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Guillermo Scarabino, director
Coro Polifónico Nacional
Soloists to be determined
Jorge Fontenla: Atardecer en la sierra (Prelude for orchestra, Op 2, 1948)
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem, opus 45, for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra

Friday 26, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Soledad de la Rosa, soprano
Fernando Pérez, piano
Antonio Tauriello: Symphonic Overture
Igor Stravinsky: Capriccio, for piano and orchestra
Gustav Mahler Symphony Nº 4, en G Major

SEPTEMBER 2011

Friday 2, 11 am - Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), Agüero 2502
Director to be determined
Emilo Peroni, piano
Bela Bartok; concert for piano and orchestra Nº 1
Works to be determined

Friday 9, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Reinaldo Censabella, director
Coro Polifónico Nacional
Soloists to be confirmed
Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, version in concert

Friday 16, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Pedro I. Calderón, director
Juan Carlos Paz: Rítmica ostinata
Gustav Mahler Symphony Nº 5, in C-sharp minor

Friday 23, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Carlos Vieu, director
Soloists to be determined
Cecilia Pereyra: “… y su sombra” (SADAIC Award 2010)
Coro Nacional de Jóvenes
Giaccomo Puccini: Glory Mass, for tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra

OCTOBER 2011

Friday 21, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Homage to the Bicentennials
Works and artists to be determined

Friday 28, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
Jorge Lhez, director
Alexander Panizza, piano
Carlos López Buchardo: Escenas Argentinas
Franz Liszt: Concert n.º 1, for piano and orchestra in E flat major, R 455
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony n.º 8, in G Major, opus 88

NOVEMBER 2011

Friday 4, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
New Directors
Pablo Boggiano, director
Ricardo Zanón, piano
Esteban Bencecry: Inti Raymi
Manuel de Fall:; Noche en los jardines de España
Anton Bruckner: Symphony Nº 4, in E flat major 'Romántica'

Friday 11, 8 pm – Auditorio de Belgrano, Virrey Loreto 2348
New Directors
Darío Dominguez, director
Mauricio Guzmán, piano
Alberto Ginastera: Obertura del Fausto criollo
Ludwig van Beethoven: concert nº3, for piano and orchestra, in C minor, op.37
Piort Ylich Tchaicovsky: Symphony Nº 6 “ Patetica”, B minor, opus 74

Friday 25, 7 pm – Bolsa de Comercio, Sarmiento 299
Guillermo Becerra, director
Coro Polifónico de Ciegos
Hugo Asrin, double bass
Washington Castro: Festive Overture
Johannes Brahms: “Song of destiny” opus 54
Giovanni Botessini: Capriccio di bravura. - Romanza drammatica
Richard Strauss: Death and transfiguration, opus 24

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