Spiritual Canticle of St. John of the Cross
Amancio Prada intensifies and stages the music of the poems of San Juan de la Cruz. After more than forty years of touring with "Cántico Espiritual", Prada transmits the book of poems with a special emotionality where his voice stands out.
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SPIRITUAL CANTICLE OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS
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Amancio Prada arrived in Paris in 1970 to study at the Sorbonne. His neighbor and roommate, tired of listening to him sing at night, knocked on his door one day and gave him "Vida y Obras de San Juan de la Cruz". "Read and be quiet," he told him. Prada, after leafing through it and reaching the pages of "Cántico Espiritual", was fascinated. In his solitude, and while reading the book of poems, he could listen to the sung music of St. John of the Cross and fell in love with the melodies that emerged from his soul. Amancio Prada's recital intensifies the music of the poems and places it on stage. In the recital, as María Zambrano describes it; "Music and voice do not appear, then, added, but extracted from the poem itself. Nuptials of word and musicality. And something more inaudible, no doubt. Nuptials celebrated there, in the "ascended caverns of the stone", "to the mountain and to the hill where the pure water flows". After more than forty years of touring with "Cántico Espiritual de San Juan de la Cruz", Prada transmits the poetry book with a special emotionality where his voice stands out. This is, according to musicologist Inés Mogollón, his best tool: "of beautiful timbre and perfect diction, a voice that combines a form of lyrical declamation deeply expressive and very personal, a mastery of singing that makes the trembling of love, or if you prefer mystical, reach us even more disturbing". |
FROM THE PROLOGUE TO THE SPIRITUAL CANTICLE
"... Since, then, these songs were composed in love of abundant mystical intelligence, they cannot be declared to the just, nor will my intent be such, but only to give some light (in) general, since Your Reverence has so willed it. And this I consider better, because the sayings of love are better left in their breadth so that each one of them may profit according to his own way and flow of spirit, than to abbreviate them to a sense that does not suit every palate. And so, although in some way they are declared, there is no reason to be tied to the declaration; because mystical wisdom-which is for love, of which the present songs treat-does not need to be distinctly understood to have the effect of love and affection in the soul, because it is like faith, in which we love God without understanding Him."
St. John of the Cross
PROGRAM
Duration: 80 minutes
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I live without living in me Coplas del alma que pena por ver a Dios (Songs of the soul that aches to see God).
Living flame of love Songs that the soul makes in the intimate union in God her beloved spouse.
Although it is night Songs of the soul that strikes out to know God by faith.
Dark night In which the soul sings of the happy fortune it had in passing through the DARK NIGHT OF FAITH, in nakedness and purgation, to the union of the Beloved. |
Spiritual song Songs between the soul and the Bridegroom
Where did you hide? Oh, forests and thickets! A thousand thanks pouring Oh, who can heal me! Turn around, Paloma! The Wife has entered O nymphs of Judea! The white pigeon Let's get to know each other, Beloved! |
ARTISTIC FILE
Music, voice and guitar
Amancio Prada
Cello
Rafael Dominguez
Violin
José Luis Gallego
AMANCIO PRADA
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The musical work of Amancio Prada (Dehesas, León, 1949) as a composer and performer has always had a literary base that, throughout his discography, has been shaping an anthological journey through the peninsular lyric, from the Cantigas of the first Galician-Portuguese troubadours (XII and XIII Ss. XII and XIII), passing through the Romancero, Juan del Enzina, Jorge Manrique, San Juan de la Cruz and Rosalía de Castro, to contemporary authors such as Federico García Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, María Zambrano, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Carmen Martín Gaite, Agustín García Calvo, Luis López Álvarez, Antonio Pereira and Juan Carlos Mestre. Among other awards, he has received the Castelao Medal of Galicia (1995), Castilla y León Prize for the Arts (2005), Grand Prix du Répertoire Sacem (2008), Tenco Prize (2010) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2011). |
Date
October 18, 2018
Time
19:30