Canary Islands Festival of Religious Music

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