Concert recorded at the Santes Creus Royal Monastery , August 18 2024

Jordi Savall pays tribute to the more than twenty-five million victims of slavery in a programme based on dialogue. Over thirty musicians from three different continents come together, under the direction of the Catalan Maestro, to perform colonial music from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

PERFORMERS :

Vicenta Ndongo, narrator

Guest musicians from Canada, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Mali, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.

TEMBEMBE ENSEMBLE CONTINUO (Mexico / Colombia)

LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA

HESPÈRION XXI

Jordi Savall viola da gamba, soprano and conductor

Un mar de músicas was previewed as part of the fourth edition of the Jordi Savall Festival, set in one of the jewels of Catalan medieval art.

Un mar de músicas pays tribute to the victims who, for almost four centuries, from 1492 to 1888 (the year slavery was abolished in Brazil), were deported and enslaved by European countries.

In his new programme, Jordi Savall places at the centre all those people - men, women and children - who were "brutally torn from their peoples on the African continent and in Madagascar and dragged by force to the European colonies".