Carmina Latina

From the polyphonies of the Iberian Peninsula to the sacred music of Latin America, Leonardo García Alarcón invites us to a very exciting musical journey. It reveals Spanish and Portuguese composers who have set out to conquer the New World, where they have been able to draw inspiration from local traditions to invent festive, deep and jubilant religious music.

Following the conquest of the "Americas", Spanish and Portuguese clergymen and musicians exported to the new lands all their polyphonic tradition. It is in the countries of Latin America that these musicians have settled, Juan de Araujo in Peru, Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco in Argentina ...

Some are born in the new world, which is the case of Gaspar Fernandez whose entire career is spent in his native country: Mexico. In addition, the musical libraries of Latin American churches have preserved many manuscripts that sometimes contain pieces totally lost on the European continent.

If these musicians brought to the "New World", their polyphonist know-how, they were also seduced by the local folk traditions, even adapting the texts of the Catholic liturgy to indigenous languages.

It is this movement of the Iberian polyphonic tradition that is illustrated by this program that gives way also to the trips of these musicians in Europe, like the Spanish Vittoria in Rome, where he imbued the style of the pontifical chapel ....

With his musical verve, Leonardo García Alarcón makes of this sacred program a hymn to the divinity carried by furious rhythms and raging interpreters

Sacred and profane music of Baroque South America. Works by Romero, Araujo, Flecha, Victoria, Salazar.

Soloists of Cappella Mediterranea:
Clematis set
Namur Chamber Choir
Leonardo García Alarcón direction

A show created in 2012 in Namur as part of the Festival de Wallonie.