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2017-07-03 07:00:23
Classical music: The Madison Early Music Festival will perform familiar and unfamiliar Spanish Renaissance music. What composers and works will be performed? And what makes them different? Part 2 of 2
[…] Victoria (below bottom), who are known for their choral music including motets and settings of the Catholic Mass and Mateo Flecha (father and son), who composed secular choral pieces featuring popular tunes of the day put together in a kind of musical pastiche called an “ensalada.” There are many less known composers from the various regions of Spain. Juan del Encina is probably responsible for the collection titled ” Cancionero de Palacio” and is credited with 60 pieces from this volume of nearly 500 first published in the 1490s. Juan Hidalgo (below middle and in the YouTube video at the bottom) is credited with the creation of the zarzuela, a theatrical form similar to the Neapolitan opera of the time. There is Diego Ortiz, who flourished in Naples, and Antonio de Cabezón (below bottom), who composed primarily keyboard music and Gaspar Sanz, who is […]
2017-07-02 07:00:28
Classical music: Starting this Friday, the Madison Early Music Festival will devote a week to exploring familiar and unfamiliar Iberian music during the age of Cervantes. Part 1 of 2
[…] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjC3y6CXQ8 Hear and read about Daphna Mor: http://www.daphnamor.com/ You can watch Kane Mathis play the oud at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHrxEohai8 Sonnambula (below), an ensemble of violins and viol da sambas, has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and have a regular series at the Hispanic Society of America in New York, and played a sold-out program of Spanish Golden Age works drawn from the over 450 pieces in the Cancionero Musical de Palacio, a manuscript at the Royal Palace of Madrid. This same program will be presented at MEMF on Friday, July 14. (You can hear them perform Spanish music in the YouTube video at the bottom.) www.sonnambula.org Why was the theme of the Spain’s Golden Age and The Age of Cervantes and Don Quixote chosen for the festival? What composers and works will be highlighted? We liked the connection with […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-03 18:10:19
Herons in Seville’s Golden Age
[…] and dulcian; Gred Ingles, Eric Schmalz, and Mack Ramsey, sackbuts). By the crowd gathered around her at intermission it would appear that Pricilla Herreid and her dulcian were a big hit; in songs where just Herreid played with singers, her playing was quite lovely. The other players were similarly impressive. Soprano Margot Rood, countertenor Martin Near, tenors Michael Barrett, Jason McStoots, and Mark Sprinkle, along with bass-baritone Paul Guttry opened with six songs from the Cancionero de Palacio (compiled after 1500), a storehouse of five hundred musical items held in the library of the Royal Palace of Madrid. Songs would feature one to six singers, some a cappella, others with instrumental accompaniment. Throughout, there was a deep sensitivity to both dynamics and texts. Intonation and rhythm were impeccable, and both the singers and instrumentalists brought these mostly unknown works to life with great spirit. Margot Rood’s always exceptionally clear, moving, […]
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2012-06-23 02:00:00
(CL) La Folía Concert: "Music of the Time of the Galleons" (30 jun, 3-4 jul 2012)
Iberian Music of the Old and New World, From the Discovery to the Independence of the Americas Locations: Aula Magna de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Valparaíso (Chile) (30 jun 2012) Teatro Municipal de Las Condes. Santiago de Chile (3 jul 2012) Teatro de la Universidad de Chile – Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural (4 jul 2012) Celia Alcedo, soprano Pedro Bonet, recorder y conductor Belén González Castaño, recorder Jordi Comellas, viola de gamba Ramiro Morales, baroque guitar Works of Cancionero de Palacio, Anónimo, Falconiero, Hidalgo, Murcia Torrejón de Velasco, Martínez Compañón, Salas, Salazar, Locatelli, Ceruti
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