This 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Juli Garreta, a "brilliant and deeply intuitive man" in the words of Pau Casals. His excellent Violin Concerto, premiered now a hundred years ago and performed live only three times – the last time twenty-four years ago – is one of his culminating works and a paradigmatic example of inventiveness overflowing from a musician with a clearly universalizing will. This broad vision of the compositional fact, in which the essence of the earth is taken from to project itself into the world through a permeabilization of Central European languages, was a common fact in the work of Juli Garreta and in that of other contemporary composers such as Joan and Ricard Lamote de Grignon and Joan Manén.

Joan Lamote, with whom the second part will begin, excelled with originality and apparent simplicity in the song, a genre in which he starts from the influence of the German lied model to bring out extraordinarily beautiful melodies that draw from our songbook. The second part will continue with virtually unpublished music by Ricard Lamote: fragments of Un prat, an exuberant work influenced by Russian ballets, in which the author demonstrates his great mastery of orchestration.

The concert will close with two works for choir and orchestra: Joan Manén composed several glosses on popular themes, including El pardal, a descriptive caprice of surprising inventiveness and great vocal demands; and the premiere of La força de la voluntat by Marc Migó, a work that explores the psychological concept of pareidolia based on a story by Quim Monzó.