Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, born and trained in Spain, became the maestro de capilla at Mexico's splendid Puebla Cathedral in 1629, remaining there until his death in 1664. The a cappella choral music recorded here is all for double choir in the manner of the late sixteenth century, with antiphonal effects and contrasts between the two choirs. ...
With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. ...
Moon, Sun & All Things is the second installment in Hyperion's Baroque Music in Latin America series featuring the talents of Jeffrey Skidmore and his extraordinary Baroque ensemble, Ex Cathedra. Like its predecessor, New World Symphonies, this volume is drawn from the same seemingly inexhaustible spring of Baroque sacred music composed south of ...
With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. ...
The British choir called the Sixteen and its director Harry Christophers have succeeded in bringing the choral music of the Renaissance and Baroque to broad audiences with sunny, attractive sound from its mixed-gender, all-adult forces. Here it turns, no doubt to the delight of those who've already discovered this tradition, to the rich and ...
This disc of Iberian and Latin American Renaissance music is a reissue cleverly disguised as a new release. It compiles music from several recordings by Catalonian visionary Jordi Savall, his luminous-voiced collaborator Montserrat Figueras, and his Hesperion XXI and Capella Reial de Catalunya ensembles, dressing them up with a new set of rather ...
In this CD, the King's Singers focus on penitential vocal polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- the "Golden Age" -- in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. Given the subject matter, with the tone of the album fairly consistent, it's deeply expressive, but thoroughly somber and subdued. Alonso Lobo's Lamentations, with texts from the book ...
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