The ensemble presents its ‘quimeras musicalesˊ (The Musical Chimaeras) from the 17th and 18th Centuries this Thursday in the Chamber Hall.

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a concert by the ensemble El Afecto Ilustrado this Thursday (24 October) at 7.30 p.m. The Chamber Hall welcomes the musicians with their new programme: Borondonaria. Between Mirage and Truth: Musical Chimaeras from the 17th and 18th Centuries. The tickets are on sale for a single price of €15 and €5 for audiences under 30 and with the usual discounts.

Inspired by the various storytelling of San Borondón, from that of the navigator Pedro Vello in 1570 to the Scottish scientist and naturalist Edward Harvey in 1862, this programme is an expedition to the enticing land of the legend. The concert draws on authors' works from diverse periods and locations but uses the common imagery and desire of the surreal and fantastic. The concert programme includes pieces by Antonio Draghi, Giovanni Valentini, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Carlo Farina, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Antonio Bertali and Georg Philipp Telemann.

According to its director, violinist Adrián Linares, Borondonaria is 'a whispered account of fantastic creatures, impossible natural phenomena, exotic harmonies and, above all, a world of illusion in which nothing is what it seems, a space for the freedom of imagination amid a society forced to move in machine-like lockstep'.

The ensemble is made up of the violinist Adrián Linares, who conducts it, the violinist Pablo Gutiérrez, the viola players Alejandro Marías and Lixsania Fernández, Diego Pérez on the cello, Francisco Aguiló on the violone, Carlos Oramas on the theorbo, and Raquel García on the organ.

Established in 2012, El Afecto Ilustrado is a Spanish chamber-music ensemble that specialises in historically informed interpretations of the repertoire composed between the early Baroque and Romantic periods. It performs in a proximate and tangible manner.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed people, and large families.