Aguilà pointed out that it continues “Offering a program that transcends summer and continues to stimulate the imaginary of those looking for special moments throughout the year. In Easter, the festival puts the focus on the exceptional legacy of sacral music in dialogue with yesterday and today’s compositions, always with a deep look towards the spirituality of Holy Week ”.
The act was introduced by Matthew Reger Suquéson of the president of the Castell Foundation of Peralada and the Perelada Festival, Isabel Suqué Mateuwho excused his presence in the presentation for personal reasons, although he previously said that the Easter edition “It has established itself as a unique event that encourages a deep connection between music and spirituality, creating an atmosphere of recollection that invites reflection”. In addition, he pointed out that “The poster, illustrated with a Santa Catalina de Alejandríaof Giampietrino, an oil on the table of the 16th century of the collections of the Castell Museum of Peralada, perfectly symbolizes the union between classical art and music, fundamental pillars of our programming, reflecting our passion for culture in all its forms ”.
Thus, the April 17 will start at 6pm. With one Conference at the Library of the Castillo de Perelada Museum dedicated to the Italian painter GiampietrinoLeonardo da Vinci disciple, in the collections of Peralada Castle in charge of Ignacio G. Panicellowho will reveal the discovery of a Santa Catalina de Alejandría in the collection and also explore other outstanding works of it.
The same day at 8pm the Church of Carmen del Castillo de Peralada will host the musical start of the III Easter Festival with the recovery of the oratory Sanctus and Sanctus Maria Magdalena Sanctus by Johann Adolf Hasse, which will have the voices of Valer Savadus, Marie Lys, Rafael Quirant, Maria Espada and Anna Alàs, with the Cor de la Unió de Voces Blancas and the Baroque Orchestra Vespres d’Anadí directed by maestro Dani Espasa. According to the musical director himself, it is a one hundred percent opeistic work, surely premiere in Spain since it is not known that it has been done before, lasting one hour and in which the protagonists dialogue in front of Jesus Christ crucified with the appearance In the final miserere of the A Amics Children’s Choir of the Unió.
The next day, Good Friday (April 18, 18h) The baritone concert will take place Benjamin Applin which he will perform works by Bach, Erlebach, Zelenka and Telemann accompanied by Vespres d’Anadí, always under the musical direction of Dani Espasa.
The same day, at 10:30 p.m., the Holy Week Managersa commission from the composer festival Bernat Vivancos which will be attended by “One of the best choirs in the world” In the words of the musician, the Latvian Radio Chair, under the direction of Sigvards Klava. In addition to offering in an ideal space and time, in the Church of Carmen and on Good Friday, hoping that the public can enjoy the “spirit of contemplation” that undoubtedly offers this contemporary work that looks at the Holy Week responsible for Tomás Luis Victoria who marked the young singer and now composer Bernat Vivancos at his ten years, when he recorded them in the Monastery of Montserrat.
Holy Saturday (April 19) A new double call will arrive in Peralada: at 6pm the Church of Carmen will receive the cellist Pablo Ferrández who, together with the piano of Luis del Vallewill interpret a program of wide spiritual flight with works by Bruch, Beethoven, Rajmáninov and Brahms.
At 22.30h the music of the great Dietrich Buxtehude will sound thanks to its Jesu Nostri membraseven religious cantatas that stop in different parts of the body of Christ tortured on the cross, a very intense work that passes from the initial pain to the final joy, according to the director of the vocal group Cantorcy, Jorge Losana, which will be formed by ten singers, six instrumentalists and Losana himself as musical director.
The III Easter Festival will say goodbye for the first time a morning concert (Easter Sunday, 11,30h) dedicated to baroque music with works by the Napolitanos Domenico Scarlatti and Leonardo Leo, of whom their respective ones will be heard Salve Reginain addition to various works by Porpoa, Broschi and Händel in interpretations of the soprano Melissa Petit and of the mezzo Ann Hallenberg accompanied by the Orchestra Il Pomo d’Iro led by Concertino Zefira Valova.
A program of parallel activities that include Dialogues, conferences and cultural activities that start on March 25 at the Museum of Music in Barcelona with an encounter with the composer Bernat Vivancos, to continue with a conference at the Girona House of Culture (Mar / 26) and in the Reial Cercle Artistic of Barcelona (Abre / 02).– oa
