Iudas mercator pessimus

Iudas mercator pessimus is a work dedicated to Academia Vocal de Granada. Iudas Mercator Pessimus is a work written for choir with soloist. The text is a responsory of darkness collected in the Gospel of St. Luke. The work expresses the fury against Judas for having betrayed Jesus. The beginning is narrated by a soloist as the people murmur what is happening. The people end up condemning Judas under angry screams and with a lament preceded earlier by the soloist. All that tension ends up breaking down and arriving at a passage where music expresses the pain of the condemnation for a few coins, later saying “He had better not have been born”. The work ends with an exhibition of the choir divided into eight voices in which it rejects, with fury, the act of Judas.