Cubaroque: De Pasión Mortal
14 October 2025, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
This programme juxtaposes two golden ages of songs. Music from 17th-century Europe by Purcell, Monteverdi, Hidalgo and others sits alongside songs from modern Latin America, with works by songwriters from Cuba (Silvio Rodríguez), Chile (Víctor Jara) and Argentina (Mercedes Sosa). Nicholas Mulroy, Elizabeth Kenny and Toby Carr offer performances of songs that are separated by time and space, but united by the beauty and unflinching truth of their music and poetry. This pairing of old and new conveys a sense that while the world turns and changes, people do not. De Pasión Mortal invites listeners into this wonderful, evocative music to reflect on eternal human themes: love, loss, fear and ecstasy.
Programme
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Music for a While (1679)
- Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- Si dolce è’l tormento
- Ariel Ramírez (1921 - 2010)
- Alfonsina y el mar
- Santiago de Murcia (1673 - 1739)
- Los Imposibles
- Fandango
- Juan Hidalgo (1614 - 1685)
- Esperar, Sentir, Morir
- Tomás Méndez (1927 - 1995)
- Cucurrucucú Paloma
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- O! Fair Cedaria
- Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
- Tempro la cetra
- Robert De Visée (1650 - 1725)
- Prélude et Sarabande in D minor
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- In the black dismal dungeon of despair (1688) Z. 190
- José Marín (1618 - 1699)
- Ojos, pues me desdeñáis
- Silvio Rodríguez (1946)
- Hoy Mi Deber
- Ojalá
- Ñico Rojas (1921 - 2008)
- Retrato de un Médico Violinista
- Víctor Jara (1932 - 1973)
- Te Recuerdo Amanda
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Evening Hymn (1688) Z. 193
