New musical season with three new cycles and more than fifty concerts

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MC2 Músicas in CentroCentro includes the new cycles LUMEN, LIMO and RESONANCIAS in addition to the seventh edition of VANG, in this space of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area of ​​the Madrid City Council

CentroCentro begins its musical season with three new cycles and more than half a century of concerts

-LUMEN. Musical memory of the Landscape of Light proposes a journey through the Madrid-Paris musical exchanges between the 12th and 18th centuries

-SILT. Current Musics, curated by Ultranesia, proposes a monthly Saturday matinee program with deep-rooted music that brings together tradition and experimentation.

-RESONANCES. Music for the times by Antonio Palacios is a proposal based on the sounds of the first decades of the 20th century

-VANG. Músicas en vanguard begins its seventh season with two concerts with the French composer Iannis Xenakis as a link

Next month MC2 Músicas starts in CentroCentro, a new musical program composed of four cycles of diverse styles that between May of this year and 2025 will bring more than fifty to the Caja de Música Auditorium of this space in the Area of ​​Culture, Tourism and Sports. of concerts, with proposals that range from medieval, Renaissance and baroque music, to the reinterpretation of tradition and experimentation.

LUMEN. Musical memory of the Landscape of Light
Music appears as a link between the exhibition on Notre Dame de Paris, which CentroCentro will host until next July, and the Interpretation Center of the Landscape of Light, which it houses on its main floor. Two landmarks inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list that bring the cities of Madrid and Paris closer together. LUMEN proposes an approach to the musical exchanges that have occurred between France and the Peninsula since the 12th century and that, progressively, focused on the capitals of the two kingdoms.

The programming of this cycle will begin on Wednesday, May 8, with the Schola Antiqua choral concert, under the direction of Juan Carlos Asensio, with a medieval repertoire that rescues sounds that span from the 6th to the 14th century. On May 23, Camerata Iberia will offer a sample of Spanish vocal and instrumental creation from the Renaissance. On June 4, La Folía will perform an instrumental repertoire from the Hispanic kingdoms of the Old and New World. Close this first Lumen block. Musical memory of the Landscape of Light by the Ars Atlántica ensemble, which will bring Le Gran Ballet to the stage of the Auditorium on June 18, French songs and dances in 18th century Spain.

LIMO. Músicas corrientes
Ultranesia, tandem formed by Rubén Coll and José Luis Espejo, LIMO police station. Current music, a cycle with which CentroCentro delves from May 11 into a sound proposal that, although basically rooted, is defined by the connection between tradition and modernity. In the words of the curators, it will appeal to audiences who enjoy listening to psychedelia, vocal polyphonies, trance-inducing rhythms, free-jazz, traditional music, Gregorian chant or even boleros.

The concerts, all on Saturday in a matinee session (12:30 p.m.), begin with the one offered by Carme López, a piper from Lugo who explores new routes to provide other dimensions to the traditional language with which this secular wind instrument is associated. She will present her album Quintela in Madrid. On June 15, the Berlin-based Adrián de Alfonso from A Coruña will approach popular genres such as bolero, copla, tango or rumba to take them to his particular terrain, remedied through hertzian transmission via FM. After summer LIMO. Current Music will also feature, among others, the Georgian Pankisi Ensemble and the Catalan duo Tarta Relena.

RESONANCES. Music for the times of Antonio Palacios
CentroCentro echoes the celebration of the 1501st anniversary of the birth of Antonio Palacios, architect of some of the most emblematic buildings in Madrid, among which is the Palacio de Cibeles. It includes in its programming a new cycle, under the title RESONANCES. Music for the times of Antonio Palacios, recovers and revisits the sounds, rhythms and music that provided a soundtrack to the first decades of the 20th century: those from Paris (Ravel, Turina, Fauré, but also Ricardo Viñes and Federico Mompou), to other new styles that took shape in cuplé, copla or jazz.

The first concert will take place on May 28 by soprano Laia Falcón, who, accompanied by pianist Alberto Rosado, will perform a program that includes songs, among others, by Poulenc, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Turina and Villa-Lobos. The second concert, on June 12, will feature pianist Sofya Malikian. Under the generic title Présence lointaine, she will perform works by Ravel, Viñes, Fauré, Esplá and Turina.

VANG VII. Avant-garde music
Sound experimentation is one of the most enduring lines of work at CentroCentro, being programmed without interruption since 2012. Among the activities that have been developed, the VANG own production cycle stands out. Avant-garde music, which now presents its seventh edition. Curated one more year by Sergio Luque and Víctor Barceló, it will feature 11 new appointments over the next year.

VANG VII. Avant-garde music
Sound experimentation is one of the most enduring lines of work at CentroCentro, being programmed without interruption since 2012. Among the activities that have been developed, the VANG own production cycle stands out. Avant-garde music, now presenting its seventh edition. Curated for another year by Sergio Luque and Víctor Barceló, it will feature 11 new appointments over the next year.

The first two will have a common link in the figure of the composer Iannis Xenakis. On May 18, the British composer Mark Fell, together with the prestigious Portuguese ensemble Drumming Grupo de Percussão, will perform live his work INTRA (2017), one of his most recent and complex creations, which will be performed with an ensemble of sixxens, percussion instruments originally designed by Xenakis for his work Pléïades (1978). The Greek composer will be the protagonist of the second concert, scheduled for Saturday, June 22, with the activation of his work Persepolis (1971) in the version edited by Xenakis himself on eight analog tracks later converted to digital vinyl.

All MC2 concerts will be held at the CentroCentro Auditorium. Tickets (7 euros) can be purchased through the centrocentro.org website.