Ab Aeterno: From the heart by Scarlatti, Alessandro, Scarlatti, D., Bach, J. S., Händel, Alkaen (2024/2024), Musiikinjohto Albert Alcaraz, ADDA Alicante, Alicante, Spain

The Antique Chapel & Baroque Orchestra of Murcia presents a program based on the figure of Johann Sebastian Bach with two of his only cantatas conceived for baritone-bass and orchestra. The first of them, Ich habe genung (I have enough), was written when he was a cantor in the church of St. Thomas in Leipzig on the occasion of the festival of the Day of the Purification of Mary. The second, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (I will gladly carry the cross), was written for the nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. In addition to this, the group performs different instrumental works by the Scarlattis (Alessandro and Domenico, father and son) and the overture to the Saul oratorio HWV 53 by Georg Friedrich Händel. For the occasion, the ensemble directed by its artistic director, Albert Alcaraz, will have the voice of the baritone-bass from Lorca José Antonio López, one of the most important figures of lyric that the Region of Murcia has produced, in a collaboration that both will carry out. to different places in the Spanish geography. Thus, one of the main objectives of the group's bases is carried out: to value the heritage and the performers of the territory.