¡Buenos dias! Day 4 of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. A new day filled with early music is about to begin. Every day at 10:00 am, the doors of festival centre TivoliVredenburg open. Stop by the CD sales, have a chat at the information desk and take a seat at Café con Raquel.
A recap
Some of yesterday's highlights in pictures. Raquel Andueza welcomed guests to her Café for the first time, Tasto Solo brought Spanish Ars Subtilior to the Pieterskerk and it was a festive time in the Grote Zaal with Cappella Mediterranea & the Choeur de Chambre de Namur.
The opening weekend in illustrations
Illustrator Carline Vrielink loves to explore early music. And we love her illustrations. Last Saturday, she beautifully captured her first impressions of this festival edition.
Starting today: Crash Course
The programme of Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht is not complete without in-depth exploration. There are various concert introductions and Koert Debeuf has already spoken about the broader cultural context and current affairs in relation to the festival theme. Starting today, we will explore even further. Over the next five days, musicologist and flautist Ana López Suero takes us by the hand along the streets and buildings of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Seville. What kind of music sounded in the great cathedral or in people's homes? Did music also sound in the streets? How was music spread throughout the city and outwards? López Suero gives a crash course with the five-volume Sounding the City of Seville, accessible for free!
Tip van het Team: Euskal Barrokensemble
Every year, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht is also a feast for the people behind the scenes. Our crew members are happy to share their concert tips! With today's tip from producer Meta, who is happy to make time this afternoon at 15:00 for Euskal Barrokensemble's version of Manuel De Falla's El Amor Brujo.
'I am very curious about this concert. I know De Falla's music well and it seems very exciting to hear it in a baroque/renaissance version. The sounds bring you smack in the middle of a Spanish square in the evening, sitting in the shade enjoying a glass of wine with friends and with this music playing in the background. Seems fantastic!'
Composer of the day: Francisco Peraza
Also composers who are not so often on the programme, but do have an interesting history, deserve to be composer of the day for once. Francisco de Peraza (c. 1564-1598) is rarely played. Very rarely. But today is the day of a breakthrough.
De Peraza was born into a musical family. His elder brother Jéronimo was an organist and his father played shawm in the cathedrals of Toledo and Seville. At the time, it will have come as no surprise that Francisco also started earning his living as a musician. He too played the organ, and in a very impressive way. So impressive that he left chapel master Francisco Guerrero astonished at his prelude to becoming permanent organist of Seville Cathedral. The latter is even reported to have said that Peraza had an angel in every finger.
The Peraza is the subject of one of the portraits that painter Francisco Pacheco made of famous Sevillians in the late 16th century. The painter wrote that the organist also composed a lot, including keyboard works, theatre music and even folk songs. But only one organ work is still known. Today, this Tiento de medio registro is on the programme at Accademia del Piacere's concert. But Menno van Delft comes with a breakthrough at the end of the day. While doing research for his concert programme on the music that Peraza would have heard, he discovered a handwritten composition in a dusty manuscript, with ‘Peraza’ scrawled on it. And it is very likely that this is Francesco. Today, at least, we assume so: at 22:30 you will experience it in the Gertrudis Chapel!
Also on the programme today...
...violin arrangements, music from the 16th-century Seville chansonnier and Sevillian salon music.
Today on EMTV
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In conclusion: did you know that...
... this year, almost all eight-o'clock concerts in TivoliVredenburg feature an introduction in the Fentener van Vlissingen foyer at 19:15? Tonight is no exception. Cantar Lontano, under the musical direction of Marco Mencoboni, plays Iberian vespers for Mary. Cantar Lontano has been a popular ensemble at the festival since 2007. This has not gone unnoticed by our young early music community: Ambassadors of Early Music.
Ambassador (and also volunteer) Joris van Son hosts both the introduction and the post-concert discussion at this concert. Get to know the psalmody with Marco Mencoboni himself, and ask him all your pressing questions after the concert. If you have tickets for the concert, both the pre and post programme are free of charge!
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