♦ Cycle “De Mvsica Hvmana”
♦ Cycle “Chamber Music in the Heritage Cities”
♦ Cycle “Family concerts”
♦ Vandelvira Early Music Festival (provincial circuit)
♦ Discussion Forum: “The future of the past: the sector of Spanish historical music in the COVID-19 era”
Concert Schedule
For program notes, see the Festival Book
Cycle I. De Mvsica Hvmana
22 November to 13 December
Chapel of San Juan Evangelista. Inaugural concert
Friday 27
12:30 p.m.
Emilio Villalba, multi-instrumentalist
The awakening of music: From manuscripts to stage
Lecture and concert
UNED, Associated Centre
Saturday 28
4:30 p.m.
Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla
Alfonso Sebastián, harpsichord and conductor
The hidden message of the Baroque period: Numerology and Kabbalah
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Saturday 5
12:30 p.m.
Al Ayre Español and Vozes del Ayre
Eduardo López Banzo, conductor
“¡Ay, bello esplendor!: Great Baroque villancicos
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Sunday 6
12:30 p.m.
Concerto 1700
Daniel Pinteño, conductor
Hortulus chelicus: The Dresden violin school
Auditory of San Francisco
Sunday 6
1:00 p.m.
Los Afectos Diversos
Nacho Rodríguez, conductor
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium Defunctorum – Novo modo
Sacred Chapel of El Salvador
Hall (Paraninfo) of the old University
Monday 7
12:30 p.m.
Íliber Ensemble, Coro Tomás Luis de Victoria and Soloists
Darío Tamayo, harpsichord and conductor
Sacred music for a dynastic succession: The Requiem and the Misa a la moda francesa by Sebastián Durón (1660-1716)
Cathedral
Monday 7
12:30 p.m.
La Guirlande
Alicia Amo, soprano
Luis Martínez Pueyo, traverso and conductor
Brama sañudo el viento: Musics to the divine in eighteenth-century Spain and Viceregal Mexico
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Tuesday 8
11:00 a.m.
Joan Boronat, organ
¡Luces, órgano... acción!: Keyboard programmatic music between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries
Church of Santa María del Alcázar y San Andrés
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Sunday 13
12:30 p.m.
Capella de Ministrers
Carles Magraner, dir.
Lucrezia Borgia: a blend of history, myth, and legend
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Sunday 13
5:00 p.m.
La Real Cámara
Emilio Moreno, dir.
"De mil amores": collection of Baroque Amorous Affections
Parish Church of the Santa Cruz
Cycle II. Chamber music in the Heritage Cities
5 to 6 December
Saturday 5
12:30 p.m.
Grupo Barroco de la Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
Baroque Airs: Barch’s circle
Parish Church of San Pablo
Sunday 6
5:00 p.m.
Auditory of the Hospital of Santiago
Cycle III. Family Concerts
28 to 29 November
Saturday 28
12:30 p.m.
Emilio Villalba and Sara Marina
The little female minstrel
Familiar theatre, storytelling, puppets and live music show
Montemar Theatre
Familiar concert (recommended age: 4-11 years old)
Sunday 29
12:30 p.m.
Emilio Villalba y Sara Marina
The little female minstrel
Familiar theatre, storytelling, puppets and live music show
Ideal Cinema Theatre
Familiar concert (recommended age: 4-11 years old)
Cycle IV. Vandelvira Early Music Festival
(provincial circuit)*
1 November to 6 December
Sunday 1
12:00 p.m.
Ensemble La Danserye
Verónica Plata, soprano
Fernando Pérez Valera, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium
Parish Church of the Natividad de Nuestra Señora
Saturday 7
8:00 p.m.
Dúo Lorca
The Bach family: Mirrors of the Baroque period
(commented concert)
Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de Gracia
Saturday 7
8:00 p.m.
Serendipia Ensemble
Small tempest: The miniaturisation of the universe creation
(dramatised concert)
Alfonso Fernández Torres Cultural Centre
Sunday 8
12:30 p.m.
Capilla Musical de Seises de El Salvador de Úbeda (chamber music group)
María Jesús García Sánchez, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) - European masters in the liturgical celebration
Parish Church of the Asunción
Saturday 14
5:00 p.m.
Dúo Lorca
The Bach family: Mirrors of the Baroque period
(commented concert)
Parish Church of the Inmaculada
Saturday 14
5:00 p.m.
Twelve Strings
Enrique Muñoz, conductor
A walk through the guitar history
Juan Antonio Díaz López Exhibition Hall
Saturday 14
6:00 p.m.
Ars Cantus Ensemble
Israel Moreno, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) – Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O quam gloriosum
Parish Church of San Mateo
Sunday 15
12:00 p.m.
Íliber Ensemble
Darío Tamayo, conductor
Sound Mixing: The musics of the Códice Trujillo in eighteenth-century Perú
Assembly Hall "Faustino Serrano"
Sunday 15
12:00 p.m.
Ars Cantus Ensemble
Israel Moreno, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) – Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O quam gloriosum
Parish Church of San Pedro Apóstol
Sunday 15
12:00 p.m.
Charanda
José Ramón Jódar, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) – Europe and the New World: A dialogue between souls
Parish Church of San Pedro Apóstol
Saturday 21
6:00 p.m.
La Real Capilla del Pópulo
Jorge Enrique García Ortega, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) - "De humana fragilitate"
Cathedral Choir
Crypt of the Sanctuary of the Holy Relics
Sunday 22
11:00 a.m.
La Real Capilla del Pópulo
Jorge Enrique García Ortega, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) - "De humana fragilitate"
Parish Church of Santa Águeda
Sunday 22
7:30 p.m.
Charanda
José Ramón Jódar, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) – Europe and the New World: A dialogue between souls
Parish Church of the Carmen
Saturday 28
8:00 p.m.
Charanda
José Ramón Jódar, conductor
Prayer Vigil (liturgical celebration) - Music for hope (Hispano-American villancicos)
Parish Church of San Andrés
Sunday 29
7:30 p.m.
Ensemble La Danserye
Verónica Plata, soprano
Fernando Pérez Valera, conductor
Polyphonic Mass (liturgical celebration) - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium
Parish Church of the Encarnación
Sunday 6
1:00 p.m.
Charanda
José Ramón Jódar, conductor
Music for hope (Hispano-American villancicos)
Parish Church of the Inmaculada Concepción
Sunday 6
5:00 p.m.
Aquel Trovar
Delia Agúndez, soprano
De Santa María: Music to the Virgin in the late Middle Ages
Parish Church of the Asunción
(*) Provincial circuit sponsored by the Área de Cultura y Deportes, Diputación Provincial de Jaén, as part of a commemorative program devoted to the architect Andrés de Vandelvira. All these concerts take place in collaboration with the council of the respective towns. The concerts celebrated in churches are developed in collaboration with the Bishopric of Jaén.
Study sessions
3 to 4 December
Thursday 3
4:30 p.m.
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Discussion forum: “The future of the past: the sector of Spanish historical music in the COVID-19 era”
Direction
- Javier Marín López (Universidad de Jaén / Festival de Música Antigua Úbeda y Baeza)
- Raquel Andueza (GEMA – Grupos Españoles de Música Antigua / Semana de Música Antigua de Estella)
- Oriol Aguilà (FESTCLÁSICA – Asociación Española de Festivales de Música Clásica / Festival Castell de Perelada).
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all the sectors devoted to music (included that of early music) is being radical. Many music festivals have been cancelled, rescheduled or have completely adapted their programs in 2020, with the consequent ripple effect on all the agents involved in the production of live music, including programmers, artists, agencies, self-employed workers (technicians and production staff), journalists, audiences and the fragile recording and editorial industry related to this sector. Beyond the short-term effect, the long-term consequences of the pandemic can be predicted. The pandemic offers new opportunities and intensifies the access to contents through technological networks (from important platforms to social videos), but also involves a determinant impact on the idea of public concert and a transformation of the relationship between the agents of the sector. All this is conditioning our habits of listening to music. Moreover, the pandemic has a deep influence on the cultural tourism and also on the local economic development associated with many festivals.
Against this extraordinary background, characterised by its novelty and unpredictability, this discussion forum aims to serve as a meeting point for the agents that conforms the sector of historical music in Spain. In particular, it has a twofold objective: to perform a diagnosis of the current situation resulting from the pandemic and its consequences in the last months, and to explore the challenges and strategies required for the adaptation of a particularly fragile sector to the new panorama. How is the early music sector assimilating this change of paradigm? What are the new opportunities after the pandemic?
