AC/E is supporting the concert performed by the Spanish group La Grande Chapelle during the first edition of the annual festival The Sacred Spirituality Music Dialogue in New Delhi. For two days, groups and artists from all over the world discuss spirituality through performances and poetry, workshops, teachings, meditation, interaction with spiritual thinkers of various traditions, Ayurvedic consultation and yoga practices.
La Grande Chapelle was founded by Albert Recasens, who is its current director. Within a short time it has become an essential reference in early Spanish music thanks to its balanced versions and musicological rigour. Its work performed in recovering Spanish music heritage has earned it the respect of institutions and critics.
It is taking part in this event with a programme entitled Melodías de claroscuro. Músicas a lo humano y a lo divino en la época de Velázquez y Zurbarán (Chiaroscuro melodies. Devotional and secular music in the period of Velázquez and Zurbarán) featuring pieces by Mateo Romero, Juan Hidalgo, Cristóbal Galán, José Marín, Bernardo Murillo, Manuel Machado, Gaspar Sanz, Tomás Torrejón y Velasco and anonymous composers and performed by 9 musicians (4 solo singers, viola da gamba, guitar/theorbo, harp, percussion and conductor). It consists of a selection of poems and music by the great composers of Philip IV’s reign, chiefly from the circle of the court or Madrid, to which Velázquez and other painters of his generation would have been able to listen. This survey contrasts the two types of Spanish seventeenth-century music, with pieces a lo divino and a lo humano, a division that was also applied to painting and poetry of the day.
La Grande Chapelle was founded by Albert Recasens, who is its current director. Within a short time it has become an essential reference in early Spanish music thanks to its balanced versions and musicological rigour. Its work performed in recovering Spanish music heritage has earned it the respect of institutions and critics.
It is taking part in this event with a programme entitled Melodías de claroscuro. Músicas a lo humano y a lo divino en la época de Velázquez y Zurbarán (Chiaroscuro melodies. Devotional and secular music in the period of Velázquez and Zurbarán) featuring pieces by Mateo Romero, Juan Hidalgo, Cristóbal Galán, José Marín, Bernardo Murillo, Manuel Machado, Gaspar Sanz, Tomás Torrejón y Velasco and anonymous composers and performed by 9 musicians (4 solo singers, viola da gamba, guitar/theorbo, harp, percussion and conductor). It consists of a selection of poems and music by the great composers of Philip IV’s reign, chiefly from the circle of the court or Madrid, to which Velázquez and other painters of his generation would have been able to listen. This survey contrasts the two types of Spanish seventeenth-century music, with pieces a lo divino and a lo humano, a division that was also applied to painting and poetry of the day.