JAUME I · Homage to King James I in the preamble to the 750th anniversary of his death
01 August Spain / Monzón, Huesca
Carles Magraner
Capella de Ministrers
Camino de Santiago International Music Festival
Capella de Ministrers
Camino de Santiago International Music Festival
Èlia Casanova, soprano
Carles Magraner, violas and conducting
Eduard Navarro, oud, cornamusa and shawm
Robert Cases, lute, citole and harp
The troubadours were poet-musicians whose poetic and musical activity developed mainly among the Western European courts, especially in France in the 12th and 13th centuries, as well as in the former Crown of Aragon. With the troubadours, music and poetry were combined in the service of the ideal of courtly love, love/dislike being the main theme in troubadour poetry, and the need to express it musically led to the establishment of various genres (canso, pastorelas, albas...). Capella de Ministrers offers us a suggestive journey to medieval times through troubadours such as Berenguer de Palou and Ponç d'Ortafà, among others, linked to the figure of Jaume I ‘the Conqueror’.
The troubadours were poet-musicians whose poetic and musical activity developed mainly among the Western European courts, especially in France in the 12th and 13th centuries, as well as in the former Crown of Aragon. With the troubadours, music and poetry were combined in the service of the ideal of courtly love, love/dislike being the main theme in troubadour poetry, and the need to express it musically led to the establishment of various genres (canso, pastorelas, albas...). Capella de Ministrers offers us a suggestive journey to medieval times through troubadours such as Berenguer de Palou and Ponç d'Ortafà, among others, linked to the figure of Jaume I ‘the Conqueror’.
