Canary Islands Festival of Religious Music

The Church of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Valverde, El Hierro, will host the concert Spiritual Songs and Arias by Johann Sebastian Bach as part of the 19th Canary Islands Festival of Religious Music. This program features a selection of pieces from the Musicalisches Gesang-Buch by Georg Christian Schemelli (1736), in which Bach collaborated, including arias such as Komm, süßer Tod and O Jesulein süß, o Jesulein mild. Additionally, arias from cantatas like Schlummert ein from BWV 82 and Höchster, mache deine Güte from BWV 51 will be performed, along with keyboard compositions such as chorales and fantasias. The performers will be soprano Olalla Alemán and harpsichordist Luis Antonio González, members of Los Músicos de Su Alteza, who will offer an intimate experience of the Lutheran spirituality and Pietist sensitivity present in Bach's work.