The Prado Museum hosts a concert that runs through the sound landscape of Greco and illustrates its scores

Prado Museum host this Friday, March 14, the concert ‘La Horeya del Musico is Eat Loyo del Pintor’ (The musician’s ear is like the painter’s eye), an original tour of the sound landscape of Greco throughout his life, illustrating some of his paintings collected in the exhibition with musical works of the moment.

The concert, the result of the collaboration of the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences and the Prado Museum, will be held from 7:00 p.m., within the framework of the temporal exhibition ‘El Greco. Santo Domingo el Ancient ‘. The selection of musical pieces has been designed by musicologist Carlos Martínez Gil.

The repertoire will transport the listener through the stages where the Greco left his artistic footprint and will include representative pieces of each vital stage of the painter, from the Venetian Madrigales to the motetes and liturgical works that could accompany their settlement in Toledo. In addition, the song of La Sibila will be evoked, traditionally interpreted in the cathedral of Toledo on Christmas night, and which resonates with the spirituality and symbolism so characteristic in the work of Greco.

As a Sonora Paleta, works by the key composers of the 16th century such as Orlando Di Lasso, Cristóbal de Morales, Claudio Merulo, Mateo Flecha el Young Andrés de Torrent and Alonso de Tejeda.

One of the most outstanding moments of the concert will be The musical evocation of the great canvases of the central altarpiece of Santo Domingo el Oldfirst great commission of Greco in Toledo. The Motete Assumpta Est Maria de Palestrina will accompany the contemplation of the Assumption of the Virgin, while the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria will give voice to the Blessed Trinity, establishing a dialogue between the pictorial work and the sound that accompanies the scene.

The concert will be played by the La Violondrina musical assembly, created in 2018 by the instrumentalist María Saturn. Of versatile template, it is dedicated to the repertoire of the 16th to the eighteenth centuries, with special interest in portraying the environment and stories of the pieces or in revisiting works and composers unattended.

This concert is part of the musical programming linked to the temporary exhibitions that the Prado Museum performs in collaboration with the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences and that has the will to offer to the public some of the treasures of the Hispanic musical heritage.

Since 2018 they have been held 14 concerts designed exprofeso for each of the temporary exhibitions. The concerts have the support of the R&D project, led by the ICCMU, Madmusic. Spaces, genres and music of music in Madrid, subsidized by the Community of Madrid.