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player Ben Goldscheider, pianist Elizabeth Brauß and trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin
Vary.

23-year-old Lucienne is equally at home with jazz and big bands as she is in
classical repertoire; her second album for Warner Classics, ‘Mademoiselle in New

York’ – taking in everything from Ravel to Charles Aznavour – more than
demonstrates her versatility.

Louis Thomas Hardin – Bird’s Lament

Lucienne Renaudin Vary tpt / BBC Concert Orchestra / Bill Elliott cond

Liceu Barcelona

Celebrating its 175th Birthday, there’s a memorable piece that will depict the very
streets on which the opera house stands. La Gata Perduda has music by popular

guitarist-singer Arnau Tordera, who dubs the piece as ‘something between an opera
and a musical’. Also on stage this season will be René Jacobs and the Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra with a concert retelling of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and Lise

Davidsen in Puccini’s Il trittico.

The Liceu was originally a kind of educational institution, created to present operas
performed by students at the local conservatory. Unlike many of its continental

counterparts, the Liceu was funded by private shareholders rather than owned and
managed by a monarch; it is, therefore, one of the few opera houses to have no

royal box. It’s certainly had its share of challenges, having been destroyed by fire in
1994 and only reopened in 1999; more recently, it faced the pandemic by performing

an opera for an audience of over 2000 plants. To celebrate Catalonia’s historic opera
house, why not sample one of the region’s great composers…

Isaac Albéniz – Suite Española, op. 47 no.5, Asturias

Andrés Segovia gtr

Palazzetto Bru Zane

A cycle of Massenet operas forms one strand of their new season, while another

champions women composers; there’s a satisfying collection of unfamiliar names,
from Clémence de Grandval (who wrote a number of operas, and studied with Saint-