“Pablo Heras-Casado recreates the genius of Monteverdi in the Palau de la Música”
12 Feb 2017
Luckily, Claudio Monteverdi’s genius transported us to paradise, recreated with emotion and shuddering technical perfection by Pablo Heras-Casado at the helm of the sensational choir and instrumental ensemble Balthasar-Neumann …
Naturalness is a virtue, to which Heras-Casado adds contagious sympathy and enthusiasm. As soon as he stepped on the stage, the director from Granada explained to the audience, combining Catalan and Spanish, a change that improved the program: he suppressed a piece for a single voice and in a different interpretation, inserted in a credo, three of the pieces programmed -Crucifixus, Et Resurrexit and Et Iterum- creating a new structure within an episode of intense spiritual unity.