Classics of the XXth Century | Concert Series

The Zenke-Roggan Duo playing in the March Palace
in Palma de Mallorca, 1999

In the fall of 1987, the directors of the B. March Foundation of Palma de Mallorca asked Patrick Meadows, artistic director of the International Festival of Deià, to present a concert plan for the March Palace. The Palace was constructed in the 1930´s, decorated by contemporary artist Sert, and it seemed logical to dedicate it to music from this century also. It was decided that since the ACA Foundation and other entities were already doing contemporary music, the March Palace would not enter that field. Thus the series "Classics of the XXth Century" came into being, filling a gap in the programming on the island, where there are some 400 chamber music concerts a year.

Each spring, during 15 years, there were five concerts, one every other week where groups from Mallorca, Spain, and other parts of the world perform works by Stravinsky, Bartok,. Lutoslavsky, Dohnanyi, Hindemith and other masters of the first half of the century.

Every year student performers and composers from the Conservatory of Palma also present their talents in the Palace.

Here is a list of the musicians and composers represented over the years.



Program for 2000

Friday 14 April D.A.N.S.E. Wind Quintet from Trieste, Italy, with Maria Antonia Cortés, piano

Daniela Brussolo, flute
Evaristo Casonato, oboe
Nicola Bulfone, clarinet
Andrea Liani, horn
Aldo Leanoradi, bassoon


Albéric Magnard, Quintet with piano, Carl Nielsen, Quintet, Stefano Bonetti, world première of his new quintet for winds.





Friday 28 April Trio Serafino
Granados, Korngold


Friday 12 May Wolfgang Leibnitz, piano
String Quartet of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra



Quintets of Georges Catoire and Charles-Marie Widor


Friday 26 May Trio Arbós
Miguel Borrego, violín
José Miguel Gómez, violoncello
Juan Carlos Garvayo, piano



Gombau, Bernstein, Martinu





1988
Lukas David, violín, Anja David, piano
Korngold, Capllonch, Torrandell, David, Schtschedrin, Camargo Guarneri

Joan Moll, piano
Stravinsky, Baltasar Samper

Trio Mompou, violín, cello, piano
Homs, Taverna-Bech, Tomás Marco, Fernández Blanco

Geneviève Picaud
Ladmirault, Poulenc, Honegger, Chabrier

Cuarteto Arcana
Guridi, Marco, de Pablo


1989

María Soledad Echarren, soprano
Debussy, García Abril

Trio Mompou
Turina, Taverna-Bech, Villa Lobos

Margalida Palou
Shostakovitch - 24 Preludios, Op. 24, Antoni Matheu, Visions Tristes


1990Drobinsky
Studium, Coro de Cámara
Hindemith, Mompou, Rachmaninov,
Shostakovitch, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Elgar, Debussy


Mark Drobinsky, violoncello solo
Cassadó, Kodaly, Britten


Trio Syrinx, flauta, cello, piano
Arturo Duo Vital, Pierné, Martinu

Cantilena Piano Quartet, violín, viola, cello, piano
Tera de Marez Oyens, Aaron Copland, Mahler, Koppel, Martinu


1991

Robert Brown, violín solo
Martinon, Garland, Bartók, Stravinsky, Ysaÿe, Hindemith, Wolpe, Prokofiev, Milstein

Stephan Haack, cello
Michaela Pühn, piano
Hindemith, Blacher, Webern, Prokofiev


1992


The Wind Quintet of the Berlin Philharmonic with Suzanne Bradbury, piano
La Cheminée du Roi René - Darius Milhaud
Trois Pièces Brêves - Jacques Ibert
Quintet Nº 1, - Jean Françaix
Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24 Nº 2 - Paul Hindemith
Sexteto para piano y quinteto - Francis Poulenc


The Naidin String Quartet
Panufnik, Shostakovitch, Debussy

Sylvia Toran, piano solo
Bach-Busoni, Falla, Mompou, Ginastera

Wind Quintet HARMONIA
Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Albert Sardà, Carl Nielsen


1993

The Moscow Piano Quartet
Aaron Copland, Turina, Milhaud, Mahler-Schnittke

Trio Leonardo de Munich, violin, piano, cello
Annegeer Stumphius, soprano
Shostakovitch, Ravel

Trio Novalis, violin, cello, piano
Shostakovitch, Turina, Montsalvatge


1994

The Silvestri String QuartetShostakovitch, Stravinsky, César Cano, Lutoslawsky

Joana Llabres, soprano
Rumiko Harada, piano
Fauré, Ravel, Poulenc, Duparc, Messiaen, Debussy, Satie

Henrik Schaefer, viola
Suzanne Bradbury, piano
Milhaud, Hindemith, Shostakovitch

Capital Virtuosi
Jonathan Plowright, piano
Piano Quintets by Edward Elgar, Frank Bridge


1995

Susanne Stanzeleit, violín
Gusztáv Fenyö, piano
Francis Poulenc - Sonata (1949 version)
Frederick Delius - Sonata Nº 1
Georgy Kurtág - Pieces for Solo Violin
Bela Bartók - Sonata Nº. 1


Barry Sargent, violín
Rumiko Harada, piano
Igor Stravinsky - Three Movements from the Suite Italienne
Sergei Prokoffiv - Sonata Nº 2
Prokoffiev - Sonata Nº 1


Salzburg Duo
Yvonne Timoianu, cello
Alexander Preda, piano
Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) - Sonata N1 1 (1904)
Oliver Messiaen (1909-1994) - Louange a l'eternité de Jesus
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Pequeña Suite (1913)
Igor Stravinsky - Russian Maiden´s Song
Klaus Ager (1946) - Karamage (1976)
Manuel de Falla - Suite Popular Española (1914)





1996
Josep Francesc Palou, Flauta
Maria Victòria Cortés, Piano
Linda Sousa, recitadora
Claude Debussy - Syrinx
Debussy - Les Chansons de Bilitis
Gabriel Fauré - Fantasía
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Joueurs de Flute
Henri Dutilleux (1916) - Sonatina (1943)


Maria Paz Juan Castro, soprano
Gabriel Aguilera, barítono
Anna Olivieri, piano
Torrens, Capllonch, Torrandell, Bennassar, Leoncavallo, Debussy, Giordano y Puccini

Brodsky String Quartet
Lord Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Quartet Nº 3
Dmitri Shostakovitch - Quartet Nº 8
Béla Bartok - Quartet Nº 5 (1934)



1997
Pere Pou, tenor
Urs Liska, piano
Claude Debussy - Trois mélodies (Paul Verlaine) 1901
Debussy - Préludes 1er livre
Ariettes oubliées
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Anton Webern - 5 Lieder, Op. 4Variaciones para piano, Op. 27
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) - 5 Lieder


Quintet de Vent Balear
Jacques Ibert - Trois Pièces Brêves
Rudolf Kelterborn (1931) - Siete Bagtatelas
Malcolm Arnold (1921) - Three Shanties
György Ligetti (1923) - Seis Bagatelas
Ferenç Farkas (1905) - Antiche Danze Ungheresi


Oliver Gledhill, cello
Hisayo Shimizu, piano
Samuel Barber -Sonata, Op. 6
Sergi Prokofiev - Sonata, Op. 119
Anthony Hedges - Exhanges, Op. 85
Sergei Rachmaninov - Sonata, Op. 19


Trio Leonardo (Munich)
Claudia Werner, violin
Peter Wöpke, cello
Wolfgang Leibnitz, piano
Lluis Oliver, viola
Obras de Antonio Torrandell
Sonata for cello y piano
Mallorca - Piano Trio
Three Songs for Soprano and Piano trio or Piano Quartet
Frank Martin - Trio on Irish Tunes



1998

Ensemble Eberli
Peter Schickele - Quartet for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Aaron Jay Kernis - Meditation for Cello and Piano (to John Lennon)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) - Piano Trio
Jean Françaix - Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich - Trio in e minor, Op. 67


Sandra Galiano, soprano
Julio Muñoz, piano
Toldrà, Mompou, Granados

Duo Zenke-Roggan, cello and piano
Kodaly, Brotons, Ginastera, Honnegger, Françaix


1999

Quinteto Berlin-Amsterdam
Granados, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Dohnányi

Ramón Andreu, violinDavid Gómez, piano
Bernat Pomar - Aquarius (1998)
Joaquín Turina - Sonata Nº 1Jançek
Leos Janáçek - Sonata (1922)
Sergei Prokofieff - 5 Melodies, Op. 35 (1925)
Karel Szymanowski - Sonata, Op. 9 (1904)


The Moscow Piano Quartet
Armando José Fernandes - Quartet (1952)
Georgy L'vovich Catoire - Quartet, Op. 31 (1916)
Richard Strauss - Quartet, Op. 13


Cuarteto Cuvilliés de Munich
Suzanne Bradbury, piano
Ervin Schulhoff (1894-1942) - 5 Pieces for String Quartet
Hans Krasa (1899-1944) - Quartet
Ernö von Dohnányi (1877-1960) - Piano Quintet in c minor