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The Festival the International of Music of Ayamonte presented its 2006 programme with a concert given by the Donetsk Opera Orchestra and Choir, which was performed in the Laguna square, with the objective of attracting to classical music the many spectators who do not normally go to concert halls.
The inaugural concert of the Festival comprised more than 100 performers, between orchestra, choir and soloists, when Mozart’s Requiem was interpreted - a composer who this year featured prominently in this musical event. The Donetsk Opera Orchestra, directed by Vasily Vasilenko, is one of the Ukrainian foundation musical companies that will, with increasing frequency, be making European tours, enjoying considerable recognition of the artistic level of its musicians and the musical programs which the orchestra usually performs. The Donetsk Opera Choir, under the direction of Luzmila Strelsova since 1976, is considered by musical critics as the best choir in the Ukraine.
The arrival in Ayamonte, on the second day of the Festival of Music, of the spectacular Spanish soprano, Montserrat Caballé, was certainly the most eagerly anticipated and deeply appreciated event.
Another of the figures of maximum world-wide prestige interpreting unpublished works, who has already reinforced the increasingly famous quality of the Ayamontino festival, is the violoncellist, Mischa Maisky, who performed on the sixth day.
The Argentinian pianist, Horacio Launderer, paid homage to the Moguereño poet, Juan Ramon Jiménez. The program of the concert, which was presented in the Cardenio Theatre, included works of favourite Nobel prize composers, as well as their contemporaries.
The work of Madredeus, defined by Pedro Ayres, composer and soul of the Portuguese group of significant international recognition, Saudade, is simply "the key and the reason for which we make music". A poetic, gentle music, with the crystalline voice of Teresa Salgueiro, turned the group’s concert into a unique event. The most recent disc of Madredeus, published in 2005, entitled 'Faluas do Tejo' is a tribute to the city of Lisbon. This follows a recording in 2004 of 'Um Infinitó Love’.
The next performance was the concert performed by the Municipal Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin, directed by, Alessandro Cappone, in the Cardenio Theatre.
This was the prelude to the closing finale performance of the Festival of Antonio Canales with its spectacle ' Bailaor', in which "I try to communicate the nakedness of the flamenco, taking advantage of the best interpreters without concern for their age or condition, as if it were a linen cloth on which each of the artists painted his art, throughout the spectacle - each one with its special pincelada depicting a great work of art".
In this vein, concluded another year of the International Festival of Music of Ayamonte which surpassed itself in the quality of the programme and in the active, enthusiastic participation of the public at each of the concerts during the week
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