Early Music Seattle: Lamentum
Free (Free)
Alonso Lobo — Selected works
Dietrich Buxtehude — Selected works
Heinrich Schütz — Selected works
Antonio Mogavero — Selected works
Francisco Correa de Arauxo — Selected works
Hana Blazíková, soprano
Gabriel Díaz, countertenor
Ariel Hernández, tenor
Javier Jiménez Cuevas, bass
Mariarosaria D’Aprile, violin
Johanna Rose, viola da gamba
Christoph Urbanetz, viola da gamba
Rami Alqhai, violone
Javier Núñez, positive organ
Conceived a few months before the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the world, this program by Accademia del Piacere serves as a tribute to its victims as a reminder that much more devastating epidemics and calamities – speaking in social terms – have been commonplace in the world for centuries.
The authors of our program knew them intimately: Francisco Correa de Arauxo experienced the Atlantic plague in Seville in 1599, where he studied composition with Alonso Lobo, who himself saw the disease pass through Toledo. It is there where he wrote the poignant Versa est in luctum for the funeral of Philip II, who died in 1598 At the same time Matthias Weckmann in Hamburg and Dietrich Buxtehude in Lubeck suffered the havoc of the terrible Thirty Year War.
Mogavero witnessed the decline of his decimated Venice. The presentation of his Lamentations is a first recreation in modern times of this work. Four centuries since its composition, humanity still contends with the feelings of pain brought about by the devastation of war, the inspiration of the biblical texts twenty-six centuries old, which transcend time and geographical space.
The broadcast will take place at 7pm Pacific.
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