The Prince of Asturias Foundation

Music department

Music week

As part of its endeavours to disseminate culture, in 1992 the Prince of Asturias Foundation created its ‘Music Week'. An activity that is held each year during the week running up to the Prince of Asturias Awards presentation ceremony, with the purpose of bringing the experience of concert music to various towns in the Principality.

This series of concerts are held over the course of seven days, throughout the Asturian region, and come to an end on the eve of the Awards presentation ceremony with a Finale Concert, which is traditionally presided by T.R.H the Prince and Princess of Asturias.

In 2002, the Music Department began to collaborate with the record label RTVE to bring out recordings of the finale concerts. 2008 brought about a new volume of the series ‘Prince of Asturias Awards', with Mendelssohn's Symphony. No. 2. This was after the release, the year before, of a compilation of the five records made for this collection: Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by G.F. Haendel, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi and Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.