Camerata Antonio Soler & Javier José Mendoza - El cielo y sus estrellas: Galant Cathedral Music From New Spain (2022) [24/96]

For some years, I have been performing and recording eighteenth-century galant music from the viceroyalty of New Spain. This latest album with the Camerata Antonio Soler presents a sample of the instrumental soundscape, along with vocal works set to Spanish paraliturgical texts that were all performed in New Spain. Although some of the works included here were not written in the New World, every piece presented on this album is conserved in present-day Mexico and Cuba – they were undoubtedly a part of cathedral musical life. We have included works by Davide Perez, Luis Misón, and José Herrando; each having made their careers on the Iberian Penninsula. Also included are two Italians who served as chapel masters in present-day Mexico. Santiago Billoni and Ignacio Jerusalem worked in Durango and Mexico City respectively. Finally, Esteban Salas was born in La Habana, Cuba and worked at Santiago Cathedral.

In this album, the listener will find a snapshot of the rich artistic history and ceremonial life of New Spain. The texts dedicated to Mary and the birth of Christ paint fantastic pictures about pain, suffering, joy, and ecstasy. The range of emotions of these devotional works draw from the dramatic aesthetic of theatre works and secular music of the time: indeed, we have included three symphonies (or sinfonías) from the Iberian peninsula written in the tradition of the Italian opera overture. Together these works form a fine example of the musical activities of the cathedrals of New Spain. - Javier José Mendoza

Tracklist:
01. Pérez: Sinfonia in D Major “La tempestad del mar”: I. Allegro
02. Pérez: Sinfonia in D Major “La tempestad del mar”: II. Arco iris
03. Pérez: Sinfonia in D Major “La tempestad del mar”: III. Bailete
04. Jerusalem: Si aleve fortuna
05. Misón: Sinfonia in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro
06. Misón: Sinfonia in B-Flat Major: II. Andante
07. Misón: Sinfonia in B-Flat Major: III. Presto
08. Billoni: Por qué Pedro?
09. Jerusalem: Qué dolor, qué desconsuelo
10. Herrando: Sinfonia in D Major: I. Allegro
11. Herrando: Sinfonia in D Major: II. Andante
12. Herrando: Sinfonia in D Major: III. Allegro
13. Jerusalem: Sube a gozar
14. Castro: El cielo y sus estrellas


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