Fourth and final concert of the Bellver Festival with the Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears as the protagonist of this now consolidated event. Like an encore of the season, even though it is a different audience, this circumstance arises depending on where the activities take place. In any case, the four concerts by the ensemble at the emblematic castle are already a tradition and the venue is filled day after day. The last one was no exception and, while soloists had been the protagonists until now, for this occasion it was the British conductor Michael Francis who was in charge of putting his stamp on the concert. A British stamp, as was that of the program, made up of three composers of the same nationality and almost the same generation, such as Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The chosen pieces were performed in chronological order, so that one could discern a small evolution of classical music in the former empire in a short period of time.

Hearing Fullana play the Guarneri's Mary Portman is always an indescribable pleasure. Thursday, at the third concert of the Bellver Festival, it was no exception, quite the contrary. Francisco Fullana, once again, put on an exhibition of talent, gratitude, and commitment to what, in a way and undoubtedly, is also his orchestra and his audience. He demonstrates this time and time again. The truth is that, very probably, even those of us who have been listening to him for years in all and each of his performances at home are not sufficiently aware of his stratospheric level. Perhaps it is because it is in our DNA, but that is another story.