El Parnaso Hyspano: 'Divine Encounters': Indigenous meets baroque at St Mary Moorfields, London on Wednesday 26th February 2025

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El Parnaso Hyspano: 'Divine Encounters'

Indigenous meets baroque

Add to my Calendar 26-02-2025 19:00 26-02-2025 21:00 36 El Parnaso Hyspano: 'Divine Encounters' The concert will last for approximately one hour, without interval, and will be followed by a wine reception. The ensemble of 2 singers and 5 instrumentalists will give the first London concert performance of the Indigenous opera San Francisco, written in the Chiquitano language by an anonymous Indigenous composer in the Jesuit missions of Bolivia. The opera received its first UK staging as part of "The Mouth of the Gods" in November 2024 a critically acclaimed multi-media production by Border Crossings, and most of the same performers are involved in this concert. The concert will also include vocal and instrumental items from the 18th Century Peruvian "Codex Martinez Companon" which collected both sacred and secular music from Peru at that time. We will also present the first performance of a recently discovered cantata for tenor, "Tu anarda, despides" by the Bolivian composer Manuel Mesa Carrizo (? - 1803) in a performing edition created by the period expert Drew Edward Davies of Northwestern University, Illinois. St Mary Moorfields, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary Moorfields
4-5 Eldon Street
City of London
London
EC2M 7LS
England

Wednesday 26th February 2025
7:00 PM

Programme

Peruvian Anonymous – Maye ê Don Carlos Cuarto (Codex Martinez Companon)
Peruvian Anonymous – Tonada del Chimo (Codex Martinez Companon)
Peruvian Anonymous – Bayle del Chimo y bayle de danzantes (Codex Martinez Companon)
Manuel de Mesa Carrizo – Tu Anarda - Sin vida voy
Arcangelo Corelli – Trio Sonata in D major, Op.2 no.1
Bolivian Anonymous – San Francisco Xavier (opera)

Performers

Joana Praca – violin
Edmund Taylor – violin
Fabio Fernandes – theorbo
Pablo Tedejor Gutierrez – baroque cello
Johnny Figueroa Rodriguez – drums / percussion
Kate Smith – soprano
Rafael Montero – tenor

El Parnaso Hyspano

Programme Note

The concert will last for approximately one hour, without interval, and will be followed by a wine reception.

The ensemble of 2 singers and 5 instrumentalists will give the first London concert performance of the Indigenous opera San Francisco, written in the Chiquitano language by an anonymous Indigenous composer in the Jesuit missions of Bolivia. The opera received its first UK staging as part of "The Mouth of the Gods" in November 2024 a critically acclaimed multi-media production by Border Crossings, and most of the same performers are involved in this concert.

The concert will also include vocal and instrumental items from the 18th Century Peruvian "Codex Martinez Companon" which collected both sacred and secular music from Peru at that time.

We will also present the first performance of a recently discovered cantata for tenor, "Tu anarda, despides" by the Bolivian composer Manuel Mesa Carrizo (? - 1803) in a performing edition created by the period expert Drew Edward Davies of Northwestern University, Illinois.

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