Finally this Saturday, March 21, European Day of Early Music, will be celebrated through the Bach Cartagena program in the form of streaming concerts that can be followed on the Facebook page of the Department of Culture.
Although the suspension of the Bach Cartagena cycle had been announced due to the public health crisis we are experiencing, the Department of Culture and the Early Music Project platform have decided to recover the concerts commemorating this European cultural festival, which were to be held that day in the streets of Cartagena, with live performances broadcast in real time by prominent musicians who were part of the original program, as a digital cultural offer to see from their own homes and now with universal reach.
This activity also has the support of REMA (European Network of Early Music).
Musicians from the Pretérito Imperfecto, Serendipia and Cantoría formations will take part in the program that is being announced, and it is made up of six half-hour concerts.
The planned program is as follows:
11am - Joan Seguí (Cantoría), organ
11.30am - Moisés Maroto (Serendipity), recorder
12h - Marc de la Linde (Cantoría), viola de gamba
12.30pm - Pablo FitzGerald (Cantoría), lute and archilaúd
13h - Rita Rodríguez (Serendipity), recorder
1.30pm - David Gutiérrez (Past Perfect), baroque cross
This activity complements the already announced cycle in streaming, "Classics at home", which will be held by the Department of Culture with musicians from Cartagena from March 19 to 22 on the same Facebook page, at 7:00 p.m. every day.
The Bach Cartagena program, which reaches its fifth edition this year, also has the support of the Cartagena City Council and the Early Music Project, with the support of the University of Murcia, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the Campus Mare Nostrum and ISEN.
The organizers' commitment has been to recover this activity when conditions allow.
BACH, TELEMAN, VAN EYCK, DOWLAND, HOLBORNE, MILAN, HUME, MARAIS
The organist Joan Seguí, who was to accompany the vocal ensemble Cantoría at the Bach Cartagena festival, will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750).
The baroque transverse performer David Gutiérrez, from the group Pretérito Imperfecto, another of the festival's participants, will feature works by George Friedrich Teleman (1681 - 1767) and Johann Sebastian Bach in his repertoire.
For their part, the flute players Moisés Maroto and Rita Rodríguez, from the Serendipia group, will separately perform works by Jacob Van Eyck (1590 - 1657) and JS Bach.
The lute player Pablo Fitzgerald, instrumentalist of the Cantoría ensemble, will perform works by John Dowland (1563 - 1626), Anthony Holborne (1545 - 1602), Luys Milan (Before 1500 - 1561).
Finally, the viola player, Marc de la Linde will play Tobias Hume (1569 - 1645) and Marin Marais (1676 - 1728).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena