This will be a Christmas programme with a Spanish atmosphere. We will listen to music from Spain and Bolivia; starting in the first half of the 16th century and ending in the mid,18th century.
Typical of the repertoire is that many pieces contain a mixture of secular and spiritual elements. This is the case, for example, in the villancico, originally a purely secular form. It also made its appearance in the New World.
The first piece is an ensalada, literally: ‘salad’, an assortment of texts without much logical coherence and often with a satirical tenor.
Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)
1. El Jubilate
La Stagione Armonica and Concerto di Viole L’Amoroso olv. Sergio Balestracci
(CD: “Ensaladas” – CPO 777 070-2, 2005)
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
2. Vamos al portal
3. A un niño llorando al yelo
4. Oy Joseph
5. Pastor, quien madre virgen
Musica Ficta and Ensemble Fontegara olv. Raúl Mallavibarrena
(CD: “Villanescas I” – Enchiriadis EN 2014, 2005)
Roque Jacinto de Chavarría (1688-1719)
6. Fuera, fuera! Háganles lugar!
Anonymous (Bolivia, 17th century)
7. Aires me hielan al Niño
Juan de Araujo (1646-1712)
8. Oh que bien se suspenden los Cielos
Sebastián Duron (1660-1716)
9. Al compás airecillos
Arakaendar Bolivia Choir and Florilegium olv. Ashley Solomon
(CD: “Bolivian Baroque – Music from the Missions and La Plata, Vol. 3” – Channel Classics CCS SA 28009, 2009)
Juan Francés de Iribarren Echevarría (1699-1767)
10. Vamos claros, mi niño
11. Jácara de fandanguillo
Nova Lux Ensemble of the Coral de Cámara de Pamplona olv. David Guindano Igarreta
(CD: “Salmos, Villancicos y Cantadas” – RTVE-Música 65274, 2007)
Supplement:
anonymous
12. from: Sonata ‘Chiquitana’ no IV: minuete
Florilegium olv. Ashley Solomon
(CD: see 6-9)
In photo: Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
