REPERTOIRE

Joan Cererols: Requiem for 4 voices (17th century) – Rediscovered work

Artists

Cor Cererols
Marc Díaz, conductor

Programme

The versatile Cor Cererols, founded in 2018, has risen rapidly to become a leading group in the performance and revival of Renaissance and Baroque vocal works. The choir is named after the Barcelona monk and composer Joan Cererols (1618-1680), chapel master for three decades at the Monastery of Montserrat. It was at the monastery’s choir school that the members of the Cor Cererols would meet four centuries later. This concert showcases a brand new revival of the polyphonic craft and contrapuntal mastery of the Catalan composer, a predominant figure of the early Iberian Baroque, with the modern premiere of his Requiem for 4 Voices. This mass, a spiritual polyphony that envelops us and nourishes the senses, completes the catalogue of religious music by Cererols, whose Requiem for 7 Voices is already well known.