18/11/2008
Vitoria-Gasteiz, November 18, 2008 - Fundación
Catedral Santa María will be commemorating the feast of Santa Cecilia,
patron saint of musicians, with three new concerts in the portico this
upcoming weekend. Bóreas Cámara will be presenting its new album, Pack
of new Cotillons on Friday at 8:00 p.m., an event that will be repeated
on Saturday at noon, whereas Juan Carlos Pérez takes the stage on
Saturday evening to review his three latest albums.
After last July’s magnificent response from the public, the Abierto por
concierto or Open for Concerts series has planned an intense weekend
with three very special performances. The feast of Santa Cecilia has
led Fundación Catedral Santa María to programme three events that will
undoubtedly attract many people to the portico of the church in Vitoria.
The Open for Concerts
series will kick off on Friday, November 21 at eight o’clock in the
evening with a performance by the group Bóreas Cámara, which will be
presenting to the public the new album it recorded in the Cathedral
itself last summer. Based on a deck of cards, Pack of new Cotillons is
a selection of small pieces that were popular in the late eighteenth
century.
The work originated in the Fournier Museum’s warehouse where a most
unusual deck of playing cards had been stored: each card has the music
to a small dance written on them. The deck is one of two surviving
copies of Longman and Lukey’s Complete Pack of New Cotillons. From the
start, Bóreas Cámara, a group born in the heart of the Vitoria-Gasteiz
Municipal Band, were fascinated by the sonorous air exuded by these
cards; hence, it was easy to find music for them; musicologist Josean
San Miguel helped develop the instrumentation. The album is a
compilation of dance music popular in the late eighteenth century and
spans a very broad spectrum from Medieval to Classical, including
Renaissance and Baroque. Most of these short popular pieces were
composed as entertainment.
This recital will be repeated at 12 noon on Saturday, also in the
portico.
And
the evening will bring Juan Carlos Pérez, former leader and founder of
the mythical band Itoiz. Perez returns to the stage with a group that
takes us to Atlantic River. By adding a wind section to his original
trio, he will be presenting his repertoire in the Cathedral of Santa
María in a more elaborate format than ever, which he admits feeling
right at home with. Hiriko istorioak reviews his three albums, using a
selection of songs that best suits this new repertoire.
The three concerts will be free of charge, but given the portico’s
reduced seating capacity, invitations must be collected at the Visitors
Reception Centre at the Cathedral of Santa María (Plaza de las
Brullerías) as of tomorrow, Wednesday. A maximum of two invitations per
person will be given out.