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Thursday, Oct 3 2024 · 8pm
Church of the Roman Villa of the Mondragones | Granada
[Free entry; tickets available at the tourist office of the Granada City Council]
Opening Concert / Renaissance
GEHEIMMUSIK & MOISÉS MAROTO
The Secret Music by Cristóbal de Morales:
Between the Sacred and the Profane

Laiene Alcalá | cantus

Enrique Pastor | viol

Óscar Gallego | viol

José Arsenio Rueda | dulcian

Moisés Maroto | recorder & musical direction

Notes /

The Spanish-German ensemble GeheimMusik presents a program based on the secret music of Cristóbal de Morales, one of the great polyphonists of the Spanish Renaissance. There is much controversy over the concept of secret music or musica reservata: various composers and theorists mention this term, but there is currently no exact definition. On the one hand, it can imply the use of progressions and a chromatic leading voice, which is a way of composing that was fashionable in the 1550s. On the other hand, it can also imply a particular style of performance, perhaps with diminutions or other rhetorical ideas, such as the use of specific and recognizable musical devices or figures to illustrate certain words in the text. Alternatively, it may refer to music created to be performed and appreciated by small groups of scholars.

Program /

The Sacred Music by Cristóbal de Morales:

Between the Sacred and the Profane

Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553)

O magnum mysterium

Moisés Maroto (1989)
Diminutions on O magnum mysterium


Cristóbal de Morales

Ditimi o si, o no, senza timore

Mateo Flecha El Viejo (1481-1553)
La caça


Cristóbal de Morales

Mass La caça

  1. Kyrie

  2. Gloria

  3. Credo in unum Deum

  4. Sanctus & Benedictus

  5. Agnus Dei I

  6. Agnus Dei II

  7. Agnus Dei III

Biographies /

GeheimMusik

Established in Munich (Germany), the Renaissance ensemble GeheimMusik was founded in 2024 by the initiative of the recorder player Moisés Maroto, with the aim of studying and performing the so-called secret music or musica reservata. The ensemble, with variable formation, is made up of musicians with extensive experience from different points of the European geography to offer concerts of this “elitist” music in a way that can be enjoyed and understood by all types of audiences.

Moisés Maroto

Born in Valladolid in 1989, he is one of the most promising recorder players of his generation. He studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (CSMA), with Anna Margules, and later expanded his training through a Master's Degree at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE) in Porto (Portugal) with Pedro Sousa and at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) with Pedro Memelsdorff, graduating in all cases with First Class Honours. He is a member and co-director of Serendipia Ensemble, a founding member of the contemporary music ensemble Continuum XXI, and has been a member of the classical theatre company Nao d'Amores, as well as giving concerts with groups such as Arte Minima and Íliber Ensemble. In 2024, he took part in the Portuguese research project Towards an Anthology of Portuguese Renaissance Music, and settled in Munich, where he founded the ensemble GeheimMusik. All this artistic activity has led him to perform concerts throughout much of Spain and Europe, and to record albums with labels such as IBS Classical.

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