Casa Árabe has organized this “illustrated conference”, as its performers refer to it, in order to provide music lovers and fans with some of the keys to understanding what the musical legacy from Al-Andalus consists of and why it is so closely linked to our history.

 

With the help of Luis Delgado and César Carazo, we will take a musical tour whose starting point lies in the origins of Arab music and its journey to the Iberian Peninsula. We will become familiar with the main schools existing today in the Maghreb, the characteristic instruments, and the classical and modern performers.

 

We will also learn to listen to this music, becoming familiar with how it is structured, its literary contents and its great historical significance, with the support of images and musical illustrations. 

 

Last of all, we will analyze the current status of music from Al-Andalus and what could be referred to as a “Neo-Andalusian movement,” or in other words the new creative movements inspired by aesthetic sources found within this legacy.

A performer and author dedicated to early music since 1970, Mr. Delgado has worked in several music groups: Orquesta Gaspar Sanz, the group Atrium Musicae, the  Cálamus ensemble, Música Antigua by Eduardo Paniagua, the Ibn Baya Spanish-Moroccan Group and the Occitan trio Le Tre Fontane. As an author, he has composed soundtracks for television, ballets and various theatrical production, having received the Max Award for his achievements. He has gone on tours throughout the world and is an ongoing composer for the Planetarium in Madrid. He has also worked for those in New York, A Coruña, Cuenca and Pamplona. He has had more than thirty albums published as a solo artist and has taken part in more than fifty recordings as a musician and producer.

 

Mr. Carazo is a singer and performer who specializes in a repertoire of ancient, Renaissance and Baroque music. He has formed part of essential groups in our country, such as Neocantes, Música Antigua by Eduardo Paniagua, Axivil Criollo and Axivil Castizo with Felipe Sánchez Mascuñano, Tre Fontane, Al Aire Español, the Capilla Real de Madrid, the Capella Real of Jordi Savall, Capilla Peñaflorida and Accentus (Vienna). He has played as a solo artist in oratory productions (The Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Monteverdi’s Vesper Psalms, etc.) and has collaborated in the staging of operas like The Magic Flute, Bastian and Bastiana, and a large number of “tonadillas” by Blas de la Serna, Pablo del Moral, Maestro León etc. With the aforementioned music groups, he has taken part in a large number of album recordings.