XXIX International Music Festival of the Canaries

[Janet]

Tickets are now on sale for the XXIX International Music Festival of the Canaries, and the programme will delight Mahler aficionados because symphonies 5 and 2 (Resurrection) are being performed. Other concerts include Tchaikovsky's 5th, Shostakovich's 10th, Brahms Tragic Overture, Prokofiev's 2nd violin concerto, and Liszt's Faust Symphony. The whole festival is being opened this Friday, 11 January, by the London Philarmonic Orchestra performing Schumann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's 5th.

Tickets for what looks to be a fabulous festival are available from the auditorium box office between 10am and 3pm Monday to Friday, by phone on 922 531 835, or online from the auditorium HERE or through www.ticketmaster.es. They can also be bought in Carrefour and Halcón Viajes shops. The festival continues in Tenerife to 15 February, but is a Canaries-wide celebration: there is full information HERE.

[Guanche]

Again a very Eastern European line up.

[Perikles]

They really don't have a bloody clue. There is no overall schedule to scan to see if there is anything of interest, but you have to visit every concert. Then they give the information in a perverse order by giving the actual work performed as the last item, as though it were not important. That is just irritating, but not as ridiculous as the random mix of composers. There is one concert which has a Schubert string quartet ( ) followed by Bernstein's West Side Story suite. ( ) I don't think I know anybody who could bear to listen to both.

Apart from the Mahler, what a pile of poop.