MUSIca ALcheMIca, which Lina Tur Bonet is the director and excellent violinist, is composed of Andrew Ackerman (violone), Sara Agueda, Jadran Duncumb, Javier Nunez (harpsichord), and Daniel Oyarzabal, (organ). An excellent group of musicians who filled the cathedral of San Jeronimo with music at noon on Saturday, July 9.
Personally, I must celebrate my Festival reunion. I was able enjoy the music and performers of the Integral of the Rosary Sonatas in an atmosphere of genuine complicity between the performers. This is Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, an intriguing and unknown composer who taught at the Salzburg archiepiscopal courts in the second half of the 17th century and the early years of the 18th century.
A music full of charm, beauty and suggestiveness, but with a complex structure. Although it may seem like a contradiction, I am actually describing a unique way of developing small sonatas. It is a fascinating and original way to create a series of sonatas that are simple in appearance, yet contain complex postulates around the tuning, development, and the creation of the work. This works because the inspiration source for the work is the mysteries of different parts of The Rosary. In the Saturday program, the joyous and the sad mysteries were combined.
Lina Tur Bonet combines her technical excellence as an outstanding violinist, a great ability as a communicator and a pedagogical skill of the first order. She established a dialogue where she explained each of the sonatas, which were then perfectly exposed in a virtuosic piece of exceptional quality. The formidable collaboration of the above mentioned group of musicians was a huge factor in the success of this morning concert. It turned out to have been truly spectacular. Congratulations.
