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El Greco - The Musical Journey of Domenikos Theotokopoulos

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Label: Capella de Ministrers

Cat No: CDM1434

Barcode: 8216116214343

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st March 2014

Artists

Capella de Ministrers

Conductor

Carles Magraner

Artists

Capella de Ministrers

Conductor

Carles Magraner

About

Doménikos Theotokópouloss 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 travelled 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 Titians 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 Grecos death: He won many ducats, spent on unnecessary extravagance of his house, having salaried musicians to enjoy all the delight when eating. So, lets serve him as the music.

Contents:

Tzivaeri. Canción Griega

Megalini. Canto bizantino

Letsi. Danza Griega

La mujer caida. Kassia

Austria Felice / Villanicco y Spagnoletto / Canario. Cesare Negri

Alma redemptoris mater. Tomás Luis de Victoria

Balletto Amor Mio / Cascarda Castellana / Balleto Amor Costante / Spagnoletta /Gagliarda di Spagna. Fabrizio Caroso

Ave Maria a 8. Tomás Luis de Victoria

Sibylla Phrygia. Orlando di Lasso

Recercada sobre la Spagna. Diego Ortiz

Requiem Aeternam, introitus. Tomás Luis de Victoria

Passamezzo Antico / Romanesca / Folías. Anónimo

La muerte de Absalón. Endecha sefardí