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Palau de la Música

A delightful music, beautifully orchestrated, from which Bayona and the OSV knew how to highlight the subtlety and refined play of timbres. (…) A performance distinguished by rhythmic bravura and a wealth of nuances, reaching its finest moments in the jota rhythms of the final dance.

Lluís Trullén. Scherzo

Sombrero de Tres Picos

Bayona, conducting without a score, offered a lively and energetic direction, and a reading that drew out all the orchestral imagination of the Andalusian composer, the flamenco gestures, and the Hispanic clichés — in the best sense. (…) In the second part, the final jota was simply spectacular, filling the modernist temple with a small, frenetic ecstasy.

Carlos García Reche. Platea Magazine

Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León

Conductor Néstor Bayona, who has considerable experience as a guest with numerous orchestras, felt very much at ease on the podium and conducted all the works from memory. They offered us the first notes of a season that promises the assurance of an orchestra rightly regarded as being on par with the very best.

Emiliano Allende. El Norte de Castilla

Teatro Campoamor

In La corte de faraón at the Teatro Campoamor, Bayona led the Oviedo Filarmonía with firm control and a steady pulse, allowing the symphonic dimension of the zarzuela to shine.

Enrique Bert. Platea Magazine

Teatro de la Zarzuela

The score was respectfully reorchestrated and conducted by Néstor Bayona, with a smaller ensemble of 14 musicians from the JONDE. They performed at a high level and with remarkable rapport with the repertoire.

Mario Muñoz Carrasco. Beckmesser

Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias

The OSPA, under Néstor Bayona's accurate baton, knew how to face the difficulties hidden behind the four movements written by the Mallorcan composer. The balance of the Asturian ensemble came to the fore in the lyricism of the "Andante con motto", although surely the most impressive passages would come with the "theme and variations" (third movement), where the strings and woodwinds displayed a more than remarkable level, reserving some marked dynamics and a more powerful volume, with a certain air of solemnity, for the final "Allegro brillante", sealing an hour and a quarter of great musical level and the first edition of a Festival which, judging by the support of the public, seems to have come to stay.

Jonathan Mallada Álvarez. La Nueva España

Palau de la Música Catalana de Barcelona

Néstor Bayona, in charge of the Orchestra of the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona, accompanied with a good sense of concentration the short and interesting piece that allows the soloist to show all his expressive potential; Eclectic

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