CAPILLA DEL SOL - Viceroyalty Music "On the Wings of the Condor"

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CAPILLA DEL SOL - Viceroyalty Music "On the Wings of the Condor"

The Andean Condor is the largest flying bird in the world, with a majestic bearing that made it a sacred animal for many indigenous peoples of South America. It lives throughout the Andes mountain range, from Patagonia to Colombia, flying over the highest points of the continent.

This concert proposes a journey "as a condor flies" listening to the music of the main baroque towns and villages of South America, from the distant missions of the Jesuits among the Mapuches, in Patagonia, to the Viceroyalty of New Granada, passing through the main urban centers that settled in the mountain range and its surroundings (Santiago, Potosí, La Paz, Cuzco, Lima, Quito and Bogotá). The musical story is completed with the reading of texts from the 17th and 18th centuries that complement the soundscape.

In the 19th century, when Romanticism was coming to an end, the German poet Heinrich Heine wrote his poem Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (On the Wings of Song), which was masterfully set to music by Felix Mendelssohn. Our concert indirectly paraphrases Heine, to metaphorically take us on the condor, which takes us to some of the most wonderful places on the continent.

This concert features works by Bernardo de Havestadt, Domenico Zipoli, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Antonio Durán de la Mota, Baltasar Martínez Compañón and numerous anonymous authors.