RELEASE FEBRUARY 2014
CDM 1434 EL GRECO El viaje musical de Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Doménikos Theotokópoulos. A musical journey) Capella de Ministrers, Carles Magraner 1 CD – Total time: 69’25’’ Doménikos Theotokópoulos’s musical journey includes the most iconic pieces of music from Crete, in Venice and Rome, to finish his days in the Spanish city of Toledo. In Crete: El Greco was formed as a painter in the tradition of Byzantine art, where the icon painting would condition the most of his later works, and there he learned to paint with tempera technique. After, he traveled to Italy: he was interested from the beginning to paint ‘’alla maniera italiana’’, in Venice, Crete political capital, in 1567. Since his arrival to Venice he contacted to Titian’s workshop, where he find the necessary tools for the reinterpretation of Western models, acquiring new technical expertise. His life journey ends in Toledo: was a fortune for the time of Philip II that El Greco was found in Spain, particularly in Toledo, the right environment for creative restlessness. As quoted the painter Jusepe Martinez in his Discursos practicables del Noblísimo Arte de la Pintura, around 60 years after El Greco’s death: “He won many ducats, spent on unnecessary extravagance of his house, having salaried musicians to enjoy all the delight when eating’’. So, let’s serve him as the music.
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RELEASE FEBRUARY 2014 Tracklist : EL GRECO : El viaje musical de Doménikos Theotokópoulos Canción griega 1 1. Tzivaeri 4’ 20’’ Canto bizantino 2 2. Megalini 5’ 26’’ Danza griega 3. Letsi 2’ 32’’ Kassia 4 4. La mujer caída 6’ 34’’ Cesare Negri Le gratie d’ amore, Milán 1602 5.Austria Felice (Hachas) 2’ 03’’ 6 6.Villanicco y Spagnoletto 3’ 08’’ 7 7.Canario 2’ 43’’ Tomás Luis de Victoria 8. Alma redemptoris mater (A 8 voces) 5’50’’ Fabrizio Caroso. Il Ballarino, Venecia 1581 9. Balletto Amor Mio 1’ 14’’ 10. Cascarda Castellana 1’ 49’’ 11. Balletto Amor Costante 1’ 49’’ 12. Spagnoletta 1’ 04’’ 13. Gagliarda di Spagna 1’ 13’’ Tomás Luis de Victoria 14. Ave Maria (A 8 voces) 4’ 37’’ 15 Orlando di Lasso. Prophetiae Sibyllarum, 1600 15. Sibylla Phrygia 2’ 19’’ Diego Ortiz. Tratado de glosas, Roma 1553 16. Recercada sobre la Spagna 2’ 14’’ Anónimo 17. Passamezzo Antico 5’ 11’’ 18. Romanesca 3’ 14’’ 19. Folías 3’ 28’ Tomás Luis de Victoria. Requiem, Madrid 1605 20. Requiem aeternam, Introitus 5’ 16’’ 21 Anónimo sefardí 21. La muerte de Absalón 3’ 28’’
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