The specialized Valencian ensemble Capella de Ministrers, directed by Carles Magraner, along with the Coro AVocal CdM, the Escolanía de la Virgen de los Desamparados, and a cast of ten specialized soloists, will offer this extraordinary concert next Wednesday, May 6, at 7:30 PM, in the Sala Iturbi.
This masterpiece by Monteverdi, published in Venice in 1610, marked a before and after in music history, integrating operatic avant-garde into liturgy. Its musical audacity, with obbligato instruments, polychorality, and extreme vocal virtuosity, makes it one of the most ambitious sacred works prior to Johann Sebastian Bach.
“"Listening in the Sala Iturbi, with acoustics that enhance the richness of this music, this magnificent sacred work of early Baroque, so full of depth and monumentality, is a musical event that no one should miss."
Monteverdi's genius lies in his ability to fuse the old and the new, imbuing sacred music with an emotional depth and theatrical sense previously unexplored in the liturgical sphere. The program is structured with an initial invocation, five psalms, the hymn Ave maris stella, and modern “sacred concertos,” culminating in the majestic Magnificat.
The vocal cast includes the Coro AVocal CdM, led by Marco García de Paz, and the Escolanía de la Virgen de los Desamparados, directed by Luis Garrido, as well as the voices of sopranos Beatriz Lafont and Èlia Casanova, altos David Sagastume and Sonia Gancedo, tenors Roberto Rilievi, Víctor Sordo and Ariel Hernández, and baritones Víctor Cruz and Giorgio Celenza.
