Carles Magraner presents Capella de Ministrers new concert program dedicated to Spanish historical music from 16th to 17thcenturies.   Capella de Ministrers presents a concert program for…

In a context of division and disunity of the Catholic Church (on pope in Rome, one in Avignon), St. Vicente Ferrer settled with great fame as a preacher of God's Judgment. Dubbed by locals as'' The Angel of the Apocalypse'', his ominous preaching through European territory was addressed to avoid bad habits, continually reminding that the Final Judgment awaits to all of us, touching deeply the souls of most believers, but also the most skeptical.

Carles Magraner proposes a musical journey around the Medieval Mediterranean to the hand of one of the most important theologists and philosophers of the History: Raymundus Lullus. The musical references of his writings are brief but fundamental. In the "Revelatio Secretorum Artis" the 18th century german lullist Ivo Salzinger wrote his work "De Secreto Musicae" where, after reiterate the musical authority of Boethius and Pythagoras, deals with the division of the monochord, the musical consonances and the solmisation system of Guido d’Arezzo, and following Lullus says that music is "ars inventa ad ordinandum multas voces concordantes in uno canto".

THE GRECO'S MUSICAL JOURNEY: VALENCIA, TOLEDO & NEW YORK

Doménikos Theotokópoulos's musical journey includes the most iconic pieces of music from his birth city in Crete, his time in Venice and Rome, to finish his days in the Spanish city of Toledo. As quoted the painter Jusepe Martinez in his Discursos practicables del Noblísimo Arte de la Pintura, around 60 years after El Greco's death: "He won many ducats, spent on unnecessary extravagance of his house, having salaried musicians to enjoy all the delight when eating''. So, let's serve him as the music. This release, that includes texts of Alfonso de Vicente and Álvaro Zaldívar, is available since January 2014 at digital plattforms, CdM on-line Shop and more than 25 countries throught Outhere.