Retrato da natureza
Amandine Beyer, conductor
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from the opera “Naïs”
- Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in A minor No. 5, Op. 7
- Georg Muffat: Concerto grosso No. 12 in G major, “Propitia Sydera”
- Justin Heinrich Knecht: Pastoral Symphony in G major, “The Musical Portrait of Nature”
TALKING WITH… Amandine Beyer, conductor
Sala Mozart, 7:45 p.m.
Both Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jean-Marie Leclair died in Paris in 1764 and are pillars of the late French Baroque. Rameau, devoted to stage music, composed Naïs in 1749 to celebrate the Treaty of Aachen, while Leclair’s Violin Concerto No. 5 showcases an intimate melodic elegance, less martial in character. Georg Muffat was one of the first composers to specify how his music should be performed; his Concerto grosso No. 12 offers a Lutheran-rooted musical rhetoric articulated in contrasting affects that poetically evoke its title “Propitious Stars”: solemnity, rhythmic drive, restrained lyricism, and fugal sections. Unlike Muffat, Knecht spent nearly his entire life in Germany. A contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, his Pastoral Symphony anticipates Beethoven’s monumental work through its programmatic references.
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Festivals
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The “Xenerais da Ulla” is the most outstanding feature of the Ulla region’s traditional Carnival. It has been held in the surroundings of Santiago since the first half of the 19th century: the “Xenerais” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful military garments similar to those of that time, but they also include purely carnivalesque adornments, which the horses also wear.
The natural region of a Ulla features an original rural carnival, whose record goes back to the mid-19th century.
The parish of Angrois in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance.
The parish of Aríns in Santiago de Compostela celebrates on february 14 its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance.
On the afternoon of February 15, the parish of O Eixo in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance, which involves a stagin where different characters take part.
