Hotel Cristal Ballena hosted Baroque Nomade Ensemble

The brilliant interpretation of the “Baroque Nomade Ensemble” resounded through the air of the Hotel Cristal Ballena and was rewarded with copious applause by the audience. Doña Herta and Don Waldemar, owners of the hotel, are art lovers, especially of music. For many years they have hosted concerts in the hotel's elegant facilities. Last August “Le Baroque Nomade” from Paris, sponsored by BAC San José Bank, visited as part of their Costa Rica tour. Through their music, they recreated the atmosphere of Old Spain and the New Worlds.

For some two hundred years, Spain was one of the greatest powers in the world, enriched by gold and merchandise of its conquests, reigned in the Netherlands, parts of Italy and France, and overseas colonies. Those were the times of absolutism; kings and the church, eager for culture to create palaces and temples, were patrons of art and musicians. At this time, palaces like Versailles were built, Rembrandt created his paintings, Cervantes wrote his timeless books, and Bach and Mendelson composed their masterpieces. Traveling musicians such as Fernández and Miguel Mateo de Dallo de Lana took 17th-century music to the New World where the Renaissance currents mixed with Baroque elements.