Polyphony is a type of texture characteristic of the music of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when it reached its peak. This concert of the Fundació Studium Aureum is a tour of this type of music from its most splendid moment to the last generations of composers.
Involved in the chorus:
Sopranos: M José Campaner, Bàrbara Femeníes, Maria Mulet, Raquel Ribas (soloist), Do-in Peleteiro (soloist), Maria Rosselló, Francesca M Salas, Sandra Solascasas
Contraltos: Amelia Forteza, Joana M. Furió, Petra Genestra, Rose-Marie Iglesias, Waltraud Mucher (soloist), M de Gràcia Salas, Montserrat Sobrevias
Tenors: Antonio Aragón (soloist), Guillem Nicolau, Quico Ribas, Detlef Reshoft, Joan Serra, Santiago Torresquesana
Bass: Joan Brunet, Guillem Cortés, Jaume Llull, Llorenç Melià, José Gabriel Serrano, Joan Carles Simó
Program:
Miserere mei, Deus, by Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652); Taaveti laul 104 (psalm 104), by Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962); Ubi caritas, Ola Gjeilo (1978); Blagri, Damijan Močnik (1967); Pacem (premiere), Mercè Pons (1968); Tristis est anima mea, Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722); Morning Star, Arvo Pärt (1935); O Maria maris stella, William Hawley (1950); Acclamatio, Damijan Močnik (1967); and Lux Aurumquae, Eric Whitacre (1970).
