Hanacpachap Cussicuinin (1631)~ritual Formulario, in Quechua Juan Pérez DE Bocanegra

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Mexico Barroco: Puebla I - Maitines de Navidad
Benjamín Juárez Echenique (Conducer) - Schola Cantorum de Mexico & Angelicum de Puebla (Performers)
EAC Rip | FLAC | LOG | 1CD | 289 MB | Cover | RAR
EAC Rip | MP3 [Preset Fast Extreme] | LOG | 1CD | 139 MB | Cover | RAR
Genre: Classical Baroque | Label: URTEXT | Year: 1995

Like most Spanish maestros de capilla, Puebla, Mexico, Padilla composed a great number of chanzonetas or villancicos. These charming and melodious works encompass exquisite charm and refined elegance to unabashed humour; they are frequently framed with dance rhythms, often in a characteristic uneven triple time with abundant syncopation. All the words in this gender have melodic instrumental lines and accompaniments with great variety of possibilites: from a solo voice to a full choir.

The instruments were characteristic of Renaissence music: recorders, dulzian, shawms, cornets, voils, organ, crumhorns, etc. In Mexico, villancicos achieved such popularity that they were published even when paper was very scarce, and important works such as some writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz could not be printed.

With this very interesting program the Arriaga-year opened in Bilbao, the birthplace of the composer who died in 1826, not yet twenty years old. His vocal works are performed according to the original manuscripts.