Lamentations of melancholy

It was a blissful time, the old Al-Andalus, when Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived together relatively peacefully on the Iberian Peninsula from the 8th to the 15th century. The writer and bon vivant Federico Garcia Lorca called this mixture a "culture of many" when he published his famous collection of poems, Romancero Gitano, about 100 years ago, in which he pays homage to this cultural mix in his native Spain in a symbolic and often surreal way.

This collection inspired us to put together a program of Spanish cantigas and romanceros spanning 900 years of music history, from the 13th century to the present day. And in these songs and ballads, as well as in stories recited by a storyteller and songs commissioned by us from the Jewish composer Udi Perlmann (*1990), we follow the dramatic period of the decline of ancient Al-Andalus after the conquest of Granada by Christian Spanish troops in 1492, the history of the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the history of religious strife, persecution, and extermination.

And so Cantigas y Romanceros brings together once again what belonged together in Al-Andalus: religions, arts, cultures, centuries...

Concierto Ibérico
Juan González Martínez – Baroque trombones (conductor)
Inés Pina Pérez – Baroque recorders
Runar Kjeldsberg – Spanish guitar, theorbo
Lea Suter – 16-foot harpsichord
Hannes Malkowski – Percussion

Udi Perlman – Composition

John Rogers – Storytelling

Einat Aornstein – vocals

Free admission: https://stpetridom.de/musik-und-events/konzerte-im-dom/#eventId=26393706&eventName=kammermusik-im-nordschiff