ぐるりよざ Gururiyoza!

With music across the seas
Sun 26.11.23 17.45 Intro 18:15 Concert

Barfüsserkirche
Historical Museum Basel

"Red seal ship" with Japanese and Portuguese sailors, 17th century. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Gururiyoza! - With music across the seas

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s early as the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries brought Western music to the Far East. Can we imagine the scene when Renaissance polyphony was taught in Japanese priestly seminaries and colegios, and Christian spiritual plays were performed in local vernacular languages? Due to the extreme oppression and persecution of Christians towards the end of the century, the evidence of these practices was almost erased, but enough traces have remained to revive and reconstruct them in our time.

This program presents the fascinating musical and cultural exchange between East and West, which is largely unknown to us today. Four specialized musicians, well acquainted with both Iberian and Japanese culture and music, will bring this adventurous program to the stage for the first time!

Ryosuke Sakamoto – Vihuela da mano, Vihuela d’arco, Voice; direction

Doron Schleifer – Voice

Ivo Haun – Vihuela da mano, Voice; co-direction

Joan Boronat Sanz – Renaissance organ, harpsichord, voice

European woman plays vihuela. Unknown painter of the Momoyama period (1573-1615); Yamato Bunka-kan Museum in Nara, Japan

2023

October

Glickhaftig!

From Felix Platter's musical life
Fri 27.10.23 Theme 17:45 Concert 18:15

Barfüsserkirche
Historical Museum Basel