Jordi Savall is in tune with Christmas as part of the L’Auditori’s El So Original cycle, in which today, the 15th, at 8:00 p.m., he rescues an unusual sacred program that is rarely performed: the Nativity Song by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and its famous Te Deum en Re, famous for the opening fanfare used in European television broadcasts. Subscribers have a 20% discount on the price of tickets as long as they are purchased on the La Vanguardia sales website.
This program that the master of early music brought to Toulouse last week and will present in Dijon on the 18th, will be heard on the 15th in Barcelona as part of the YOCPA project, Young Orchestra and Choir Professional Academy, of Le Concert de Nations, one of their groups. This is the program that allows young professionals to be part of the educational programs of the choir of La Capella Reial de Catalunya and the orchestra, and which has a grant from the European Union.
This piece by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), a disciple of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome and Molière’s official composer, synthesizes the fusion of French and Italian music in this narration of Advent and the birth of Christ. Charpentier composed it around 1690, being master of the chapel of Saint Louise in Paris, so it is intended for the sacred Christmas service.
Savall ends this year traveling from the 13th to the 19th century, because at the same time that he held a concert with Schubert’s symphonies and released them as a new record, he also published the Codex of Santa María de las Huelgas. This imminent 2023, the famous viola gambia player and conductor will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his Alia Vox label.
