Cristina Garcia Banegas, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Gabriel Garrido - Mexique - Nouvelle Espagne (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 896 Mb | Total time: 63:26+61:36+62:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K617 | K617122 | Recorded: 1992, 1998, 2001
Francisco Lopez Capillas was born in 1608 in Mexico City, and studied plainchant and polyphonic composition at the Royal and Pontifical University before assuming the post of chorister and second organist at Puebla Cathedral in 1641. Although most of his significant works were composed toward the end of his life–and thus well into what is generally regarded as the baroque period–the Messe de la Bataille is, like many of his other works, ambiguous in its relationship to the musical innovations that were taking place in the old world at the time.