During Holy Week, music takes on special importance, as it accompanies the different liturgical acts, and many polyphonic choirs offer concerts based on this music that began to be produced from the beginning of Christianity as a heritage of Jewish music.
Last Thursday night, the San Ginés Polyphonic Choir Association and the Magec Camerata, a small string orchestra from Gran Canaria, offered the 'Sacred Concert of Holy Week'. The chosen venue was the Santo Domingo Convent in La Villa de Teguise, a space that meets all the conditions and where the attending public enjoys it to the fullest due to the acoustic quality.
A total of 50 members, women and men, musicians and choristers, masterfully directed by Professor Elías Roldán, performed an extensive program of great composers such as Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastián Bach, W. Amadeus Mozart, Léo Delibes, Zoltán Kodály, among others. Works such as Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Missa Brevis, Ave verum corpus, Stabat Mater, Oh lacerated face, etc.
Elías Roldán chose for the closing an adaptation of the Holy Week march 'La Madrugá', composed by Abel Moreno (march that appears in the final scene of the movie Alatriste), although this work is written for a music band, Roldán with his arrangements more than succeeded in having the choir, orchestra, fanfare, and organist carry it out, receiving as a reward the applause of the public.
The concert came to an end where the choir sang a fragment of the Agnus Dei, concluding with the 'Dona nobis Pacem' (give us peace), a fragment that they had to repeat as an encore due to the insistent applause of the public.
