The Madrid Ancient Music Festival (in its second edition) will take place between April 7 and 18 with a very rich repertoire. The complete program, which can be consulted on its website or in the file attached to this new, will offer a renovated overview about this music.
The Juan de Borbón Foundation organizes its 39 Sacred Music Week in Segovian capital. As usual, in the festival we can find some sessions of the program dedicated exclusively to Early Music. Such is the case of the performance on Friday, March 26, dedicated to the Hispanic polyphonists (Guerrero, Victoria, Morales, Vivanco) by the Gradualia Choir. In addition, the organizers offers an specialist talk with José Luis López Antón at 18:30.
At the Cervantes Theater in Malaga there will be a cycle of Ancient Music during this Holy Week. Specifically, under the title 'Aeternum. Sacred Music of the World ', the program will explore the religiosity of some of the great composers of the European repertoire. The cycle begins with one of the most representative authors of this objective (J. S. Bach), whose religious experience A. Delgado and Iñaqui Salvador do not hesitate to consider him as a mystic in the opening concert (J.S. Bach: a mystic in the 21st century ').
The Early Music Festival of Seville starts today its XXXVIII edition. As usual we can report a hight quality of this meeting. Twenty-eight concerts cover some of the milestones of early Hispanic and European music. Thus, we can higlight the monographic dedicated to Las Cantígas of Alfonso X the wise (by the Artefactum group, on March 13) or the concert dedicated to medieval dance by Jose Luis Pastor (March 27).
The XVIII season of Histocally Informed Music of the city of Leon (organized by the city council and the National Center for Musical Diffusion of Spain) has organized its program for the year 2021. The season will have at least one concert per month until mid-June. The cycle offers a musical journey through the music of the Renaissance and European Baroque. The first concert will be given by Jordi Savall (and two of his regular collaborators Andrew Lawrence-King and Xavier Díaz-Latorre), precisely with the aim of offering us a bridge between both eras.
The RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) orgnizes for next January 28 at 18:00 a vituar meeting (by ZOOM) dedicated to the collection of choirbooks preserved in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticanal. During the meeting Richard Sherr (Smith College) will read a lecture entitled: "Reflections on 40 Years with the Cappella Sistina Fund", and also will intervent Thomas Schmidt (University Huddersfield) and Claudia Montuschi (Director of the Manuscripts Department of the Vatican Apostolic Library).
The Valldigna International Medieval Music Center has presented its annual programm of conferences and music concerts. The schedule has practically one concert a month (except July and August). It allows a very variety but we can also see a liking point though all the concerts: the Mediterranean experience and contact between cultures. The concert offered by Los musicos de Uruñea (March 6) and by Aquitania (September 4) are focused on islamic, jewish and christian music of the Iberian Middle Ages.
The city council of Alcalá de Henares in collaboration with the quartet Musicantes, organize a new edition of the Festival of Ancient Music of Alcalá de Henares. In this occasion, it will be focus mainly but not only, on the medieval and Renaissance repertoire. We can highlight the performance of the duo Jota Martínez, specialized in the medieval spanish period and who will put seven cantigas of Alfonso X. Also the Musicantes Ensemble, will stress the point on the medieval period but wil a more variety (Sephardic, Alfonsine and Machaut works).
Aranjuez Early Music Festival organizes its new edition, conditionated to the evolution of the epidemiological, wich will explore the history of spanish music (but not only) from the Renaissance until Classicism. Therefore, attenders would enjoy music from Juan del Encina to Haydn and some other musicians like Guerrero, Vivaldi, Scarlatti Boccherini or Brunetti.
