After-hours Concert: Halloween music

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Hear the greatest masters of Spanish Renaissance music, which is rarely heard here. The music is related to the special Catholic Officium Defunctorum (the office of the dead), which includes both mass sections (Requiem) responsories, motets and prayers. The programme's central work is Cristóbal de Morales' requiem from 1544. Between the parts of the funeral mass, motets from other important composers of the period are heard.

The Renaissance was a golden age on the Iberian Peninsula. With Columbus' discovery of the “new world”, the foundation was laid for the worldwide Spanish empire, which led to more than a hundred years of economic and artistic flourishing. Well-known visual artists such as Velázquez and El Greco date from this period, but it was also a golden age for music. Singers, musicians and composers were sent to Venice and Rome to study the learned polyphony and, after returning to Madrid and Seville, developed a sumptuous world of sound.

The music is performed by five singers and accompanied by trombone, dulcian, zink and gamba.

Music right at the end of the day!

The concept for the After-hours Concerts at the Black Diamond is simple: The concerts only last an hour and start at 5 pm, so you can both get a shot of musical energy for your soul and make it home for dinner!

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