The Secrets of Andalusia – Lux Musicae London
Saturday 25th January 2025.
– tickets not yet on sale.
We know that key influences on Flamenco date back to Islamic Iberia or the Al-Andalusian era of Spain between the 8th–15th centuries. Yet the first mention of Flamenco by name is not until 1774, where it appears in an epistolary novel, Cartas Marruecas, by the playwright and soldier, José de Cadalso y Vázquez.
What happened in these intervening centuries?
Recording collaboration with soprano Victoria Couper, kanun player, Konstantinos Glynos, and oud/Flamenco guitarist, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, this album seeks to explore this question by tracing the influences on Flamenco through Arabic music alongside Sephardic song and the Spanish composers of the late-16th to 18th centuries.
This project has been supported by the Continuo Foundation and Arts Council England.
Launch Concert Lineup
- Ignasio Lusardi Monteverde – Flamenco Guitar
- Oud Konstantinos Glynos – Kanun
Lux Musicae London
- Daniel Thomson – Tenor
- Roberta Diamond – Soprano
- Mijram Munzel – Recorder
- Sophie Creaner – Recorder
- Aileen Henry – Harp
- Toby Carr – Baroque Guitar, Lute
- Harry Buckoke – Viola Da Gamba
