Chapel of Ministers: Corpus Mysteries

In 1672, A municipal musician from Valencia named Josep Gomar completed the handwritten copy of a book that collected the texts, the didascalias and the music of the religious performances that were staged year after year at the lavish festival of Corpus Christi, organized and financed by the capital: the mysteries in Valencian of San Cristóbal, Adam and Eve, and King Herod, as well as the Latin representation of the Apocalypse of Saint John. Recovered music that in this concert will transport you to the Valencia of that time during the Corpus Christi festival., to recreate that richness of soundscape that a Valencian of that time would have enjoyed as an attendee of the impressive procession that crowned the Great Valencian Festival. Imagine that you are on Calle de Caballeros at the end of the 17th century and you hear how the different musical elements of the Corpus Christi procession pass by..