
© Photo: Ferminius

© Foto: Yolanda Girón

© Photo: Ferminius
Friday, Oct 18 2024 · 9pm
Iglesia de los Santos Justo y Pastor | Granada
[Free entry]
Concert / Medieval
VERMELL
Ars Moriendi
Rubén García Benito | recorder, vielle & singing
Mar Blasco | vielle & singing
Luis Vives | percussion & singing
Abigail R. Horro | harp, rebec, citole, recorder, singing & musical direction
Notes /
One of the most popular books in medieval Europe was a manual for learning how to die. Since its writing in 1415, it has been widely read, copied in manuscript around three hundred times, translated into almost all European languages and became one of the first books to be printed using movable type. Events such as the Black Death or the Little Ice Age and the constant widespread wars awakened the awareness of their own finitude in the people of medieval Europe, generating such fascinating phenomena as the dances of Death, the processions of flagellants, sacred chants against illness or the aforementioned manuals for a good death. In this program, Vermell ensemble investigates the reflection that such manifestations of medieval thought about death had on the European music of the time.
Program /
Ars Moriendi
Anonymous (12th-15th centuries)
Maria unser frowe / Maria muoter reinu mait (Geisslerlieder, 14th century)
Vanitatum vanitas / Scribere proposui (Piae Cantiones, 15th century)
Breves dies hominis / Mors vite propitia (Pluteus 29.1, 13th century)
Ad mortem festinamus (Death dance, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, 14th century)
Fulget dies celebris (F-Pn lat. 3719, 12th-13th centuries)
Voi ch’amate lo Creatore (Laudario Magliabechiano 18, 14th century)
Madre de Deus, óra por nós (Cantigas de Santa María, no. 422, 13th century)
Stella Caeli exstirpavit (plaintchant from the Mosteiro de Santa Clara of Coimbra,
14th century)
Como somos per consello (Cantigas de Santa María, no. 119, 13th century)
In dulce jubilo (Piae Cantiones, 15th century)
Biographies /
Vermell
Vermell was founded in Granada by four musicians with a long career in the field of early music who decided to pool their experience and knowledge to research and disseminate medieval history through music. Led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Abigail R. Horro, the group prepares its concert programs with a clear educational vocation, with the aim of leading the public through different aspects of the daily life of men and women in the Middle Ages, and narrating the biography of little-known or mistreated characters by history, all with European medieval music as the common thread.