Tenerife hosts the XVIII Canary Islands Religious Music Festival with six concerts
The Minister of Culture and Museums of Tenerife, José Carlos Acha, presents this ambitious program that can be seen in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna, Icod de los Vinos, Los Silos and El Sauzal
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna, Los Silos, Icod de los Vinos and El Sauzal host six concerts of the XVIII Canarias Religious Music Festivalwhich starts on February 15 and ends on March 17.
To present the programtoday, February 8, a press conference took place with the counselor of Culture and Museums of Tenerife, José Carlos Achaand the artistic director of the Festival, Gregorio Gutierrez. The councilor of Culture of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santiago Diazand the councilor of Urban Planning, Housing and Finance of Los Silos, Melisa Palenzuela.
José Carlos Acha highlights that “Tenerife will host six concerts of the XVIII Canarias Religious Music Festival and that it can be enjoyed in five municipalities on the Island. Being able to rescue this type of music, enjoy it and do so in the places for which it was created, gives a special quality to this festival. I deeply appreciate Tenerife coming.”
Gregorio Gutiérrez highlights that “the religious music we make is designed for worship and is designed acoustically to be performed in temples. Until the 19th century, a very high percentage of music was absolutely religious in nature.”
Gutiérrez points out that the ambitious program of this long-running festival begins in Tenerife with a concerto for orchestra, choir and soloists who will perform the Stabat Mater Haydn, the Austrian composer’s crowning religious work, and which can be heard on Saturday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m. in the Santo Domingo de Guzmán church, in La Laguna.
This same group will perform with the same concert on Sunday, February 18, at 1:00 p.m. in the main parish of San Marcos Evangelista in Icod de los Vinos.
On the other hand, on Saturday, February 24, the Concepción church in La Laguna will host the Visions de L`Amen concert at 8:00 p.m., which will be performed on four-hand piano; and will be performed again on Sunday, February 25, at 7:00 p.m. in the San Francisco de Asís parish of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
On Friday, March 8, the Ainur Chamber Choir will perform the program O lux beata, in the San Pedro Apóstol church in El Sauzal, at 8:00 p.m. And on Saturday, March 16, the Nuestra Señora de la Luz parish, de los Silos, will host the Sonatas del Rosario repertoire, the mysteries, at 8:30 p.m.
Stabat Mater Haydn
The Stabat Mater is the crowning religious work of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, and will be performed by the Canarian soloists: Tania Lorenzo (soprano), Gabriel Alvarez (tenor), Anna Tobella (mezzo-soprano) and Augusto Brito (baritone). The Mateo Guerra Chamber Choir (made up of members of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra Choir) and the Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Gregorio Gutiérrez, will also participate.
It is the first work of great spiritual depth in which the composer captures, with absolute religious rigor, the tragedy and suffering that the virgin experiences at the foot of the Cross. Of great beauty and with a serene and contained spirit, this program opens this edition inviting intimate and personal reflection.
Visions of the Soul
The duo made up of the Canarian pianist Esther Ropón and the Berlin pianist Ernst Surberg offers us a recital for two pianos focused on the mysticism of the composer Olivier Messiaen, which was marked by the desire for transcendence and by a deep religious faith.
Visions de L’Amen comprises seven ecstatic meditations for two pianos on biblical verses ranging from Genesis to Revelation. A work of solid sounds and moving expressiveness with two identical instruments, where the contrast of two different timbres does not come into play, but rather the dialogue between the human being and divinity.
A drunken luxury
The Ainur Chamber Choir presents a program of a cappella religious mysticism focusing on three distinct periods: 16th-17th centuries; 19th and 20th centuries, with works that represent fabulous samples of the musical vocal essence of the defined stages, achieving the objective of showing an intense content based on beautiful harmonies and melodies that are clearly subject to the various historical contexts.
This choir, directed by Mariola Rodríguez from Gran Canaria, is made up of around thirty singers, who tackle highly demanding repertoires. He has won the Grand National Prize for Choral Singing in 2012 and 2018.
Rosary Sonatas, the mysteries
Musica Boscareccia puts the finishing touch to the festival’s programming with an attractive proposal in the form of a selection of the fifteen virtuoso and complex Sonatas del Rosario, by the composer HI Biber, with which a great variety and expressiveness comes to light thanks to the use of all kinds of resources that lead to a latent originality throughout the concert, which will be performed with mastery by the violinist Andoni Mercero, together with the ensemble.
The ensemble Musica Boscareccia, created by soprano Alicia Arno and violinist Andoni Mercero, borrows its name from the collection of songs published by Johann Hermann Schein in 1621 (Forest Music). It is a group with variable instrumentation that is mainly dedicated to chamber vocal performance of the 17th and 18th centuries, from single-voice songs with basso continuo to cantatas with instrumental accompaniment.
Sponsorships and collaborations
The XVIII Religious Music Festival of the Canary Islands has the support of the Government of the Canary Islands through Promotur and the Canarian Institute of Cultural Development, and the Culture Departments of the Cabildos of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, La Gomera and Fuerteventura . In addition to the City Councils of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Moya, Arrecife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna, Telde, El Sauzal, Gáldar, Icod de los Vinos and Los Silos. With the collaboration of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation; Pianoforte SL, the Diocese of the Canary Islands, and the Nivariense Diocese.
2024-02-09 02:53:51
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