Jonathan Nott Conducts Casals. Memory and Precision at Liceu

Jonathan Nott conducts the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra. A memorial concert honoring Pau Casals, a figure who elevated music to moral consciousness, a commitment to the world. Nott, with Truls Mørk on cello, performs Debussy — Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Schumann — Cello Concerto, Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring.

Casals: cellist, universal ethical voice. His exile, fidelity to principles, music as an act of responsibility. A legacy beyond interpretation: a way to listen, resist, hope. Nott's conducting brings intellectual clarity, expressive intensity. His approach dialogues with Casals’ spirit: rigor, depth, extreme attention to each work's meaning. Music is presented here as a living experience, charged with memory, contemporary questioning.

The Liceu season explores the tension between the sacred and the sacrilegious. This concert gains special resonance. Casals understood music as an almost sacred act, never detached from reality. Capable of confronting violence, injustice, imposed silence. Between reverence and moral disobedience, his legacy reminds us: what is truly sacred demands responsibility. In this fruitful friction —between faith and dissent—, music becomes a space of truth. A place where art honors memory and questions the present.