Reina Sofía School of Music

This concert, which features various works for wind ensembles, is part of the ‘Da Camera’ concert series of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. On the program are: Jean Françaix’s Quasi improvisando for 11 wind instruments; Felix Mendelssohn’s Nocturne for 11 wind instruments; and Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for 10 wind instruments, cello and double bass in D minor, Op. 44. All works are performed by the Ensemble of the Escuela Reina Sofía under the baton of Francisco Alonso Serena. This performance was recorded at Auditorio Sony of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, Spain, on April 8, 2022.

English conductor Paul Goodwin leads the Camerata of the Escuela Reina Sofía in a Baroque music program featuring works of Georg Philipp Telemann, Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, and J. S. Bach. Soprano Paola Leguizamón features as the soloist. On the program are: Telemann’s ‘Water Music’ suite in C major, TWV 55:C3; the Overture and ‘Thy hand, Belinda… When I am laid in earth’ from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas; Overture I and II, and ‘E vivo ancora? … Scherza infida’ from Handel’s opera Ariodante, HWV 33; ‘Vani sono i lamenti … Svegliatevi nel core’ from Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17; and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068. This performance was recorded at Auditorio Sony of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, Spain, on May 14, 2022.

As part of the ‘Solistas del Siglo XXI’ series of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, flutist Ana Ferraz and pianist Luis Arias perform Franz Schubert’s Variations on "Trockne Blumen" from ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ D. 802; Antonín Dvořák’s Sonatina for violin and piano in G major, Op. 100 (arrangement for flute and piano by J. Galway and P. Moll); and Carl Reinecke’s Sonata Undine, Op. 167. This performance was recorded at Auditorio Sony of the Reina Sofía School of Music on May 21, 2022.