Capella de Ministrers presents this 30th anniversary commemorative album, a live recording with a selection of instrumental works from its latest recording about Ramon Llull, a musical mixture that enjoins the dreams of all the Mediterranean shores. 

Ramon Llull was born in the island of Majorca ca. 1232, shortly after King James I had conquered it from the Muslims. After his apprenticeship, Llull begins his first trips on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, in Italy, France and Tunis, with his eyes always set upon the East, the Holy Land, with a special emphasis on the idea of a ‘pax universalis’, an idea that was not utopian for him but both possible and necessary. He will never stop fighting for it until his last trip to North Africa and from where, once back in Mallorca, he would die. The Medieval Journey: a musical mixture that enjoins the dreams of all the Mediterranean shores, the privileged space wherein Llull would act.  

Ever since its foundation in 1987, the Capella de Ministrers ensemble, directed by Carles Magraner, has developed an important investigative and musicological task in favour of the musical Spanish patrimony, from the medieval times up to the 19th century. The result transformed into musical testimony, brings together the perfection of three key factors: the historical rigor, the musical sensibility and, specially, an uncontrollable desire to communicate and they make us participants of these experiences.

1. Veris dulcis in tempore (Carmina Burana)

2. Ben volgra, s’esser poges (Guiraut d’Espanha)

3. Je muir d’amourete (Adam de la Halle)

4. Quant je parti de m’amie (Còdex Montpellier)

5. Plany de la Verge (Anònim català/occità)

6. Estampida de Rocamadour (Alfonso X el Savi, Cantiga)

7. Alpha, bovi et leoni (Còdex Las Huelgas 83)

8. Dansse real

9. Fi, maris, de vostre amour (Adam de la Halle)

10. La quinte estampie real

11. De la flor de paradís (Chansonnier de Clairambault)

12. Apris ai qu’en chantant (Chansonnier Cangé)

13. Λetsίνa (Cançó grega)

14. Derdj Zidane (Cançó del nord d’Àfrica)

15. Quen leixar Santa Maria (Alfons X el Savi, Cantiga)

16. La uitime estampie real

17. Mikdash (Cançó sefardí)

18. Shatakhi Dzernapar (Cançó d’Àsia Menor)

19. Zurni Trngi (Cançó d’Àsia Menor)

20. Quant ay lo món consirat (Anònim català)