It might sound as if I forgot that this year is Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) anniversary. Not at all, since his music was among the first Renaissance works I began to listen. This will be the first of a series featuring music by Gesualdo, starting from the sacred repertoire to the six books of madrigals.
How to describe Gesualdo’s music? Well, Gesualdo is… Gesualdo. A unique composer with a particular unorthodox way of writing music, almost insane (some say). (mais…)
This is the introitus at mass for the Second Sunday of Advent. Populus Sion, ecce Dominus veniet ad salvandas gentes: et auditam faciet Dominus gloriam vocis suæ in lætitia cordis vestri. (Ps. 79, 2) Qui regis Israel, intende: qui deducis, velut ovem, Joseph. (V) Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. (mais…)
I am starting a series of posts of motets for the Advent and Christmas. The first one is for the first sunday in Advent, Ad te levavi animam meam. The version presented here is from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, taken from the Ofertoria totius anni (Rome, 1583), for five voices. (mais…)
Parmi ses multiples trésors, la Cathédrale d’Oaxaca possède dans ses archives le fameux manuscrit musical de Gaspar Fernandes, ainsi que nombre d’œuvres du compositeur Manuel de Sumaya qui y termina sa vie en 1756, après avoir été le plus prestigieux maître de chapelle de la Cathédrale métropolitaine de Mexico.
Bien qu’un siècle les sépare, Gabriel Garrido a voulu réunir ces deux grands compositeurs néo-hispaniques dans cet enregistrement qui témoigne de la vitalité de la création musicale sacrée en Nouvelle-Espagne. (mais…)
This weekend I’ll be in Lagos (Algarve) with Coro Odyssea, in the XXXVI Festival de Coros do Algarve, integrated in the I Ciclo de Encontros Corais em Terras do Infante. We will be singing works by Victoria, Brahms, Carrapatoso and Côrte-Real in two concerts, being the first one this evening (21:30) at Luz Church (near Praia da Luz) and the second is tomorrow at 16:00 in Igreja das Freiras, Lagos. (mais…)
3-4 Novembro de 2012 | Lagos
I Ciclo de Encontros Corais em Terras do Infante
XXXVI Festival de Coros do Algarve
Concertos em Lagos, Luz, Bensafrim e Aljezur.
A musical suggestion for today, Feast of All Saints. Tomás Luis de Victoria bring us a fine example from his musical output: the four-voice motet O Quam Gloriosum. This motet has the indication In Omnium Sanctorum (for All Saints) and was published in the Book of motets of 1572 and republished in 1583, 1585, 1589 and 1603, showing that it was a very popular work. Based on this motet, Victoria wrote later a parody mass also for four voices. (mais…)