El Transparente, Toledo Cathedral
Music of the Iberian Peninsula
Workshop · with the Portland Recorder Society
Iberian Winds
Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave, Portland
While the polyphonic style of the 16th century is often framed as a story of Rome, Venice, and the Franco-Flemish north, some of the era's most searching and dramatic music was being written in Spain and Portugal. Composers like Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Tomás Luis de Victoria trained in the same contrapuntal tradition as their Italian contemporaries — several worked in Rome itself — but brought home a sound marked by intense chromaticism, dramatic word-painting, and an almost mystical devotional fervor shaped by the spiritual climate of the Counter-Reformation.
$20. Portland Recorder Society members attend free.