Cappella Pratensis & Ensemble La Danserye

Cappella Pratensis & Ensemble La Danserye

Manila Cathedral, built in 1581, featured European polyphony from the very beginning. That we know little about these early performances makes Cappella Pratensis' experimental detective work all the more impressive. Using Francisco Guerrero's Missa Sancta et immaculata as the crux, the singers and instruments led by Tim Braithwaite paint the soundscape of a world in which liturgical music mirrored colonial power structures.  

Programme

• Cristóbal de Morales

  Sancta et immaculata 

  c1500-1553
• Plainchant

  Ave spes nostra Dei genitrix 
  Introitus 

• Francisco Guerrero

  Missa Sancta et immaculata 
  Kyrie 
  Gloria 

  1528-1599
• Plainchant

  Propter veritatem 
  Graduale 

• Plainchant

  Alleluia salve Virgo serena 

• Francisco Guerrero

  Missa Sancta et immaculata 
  Credo 

  Ave Maria a 4 
  Offertorium

• Plainchant

  Prefatio

• Francisco Guerrero

  Missa Sancta et immaculata 
  Sanctus 
  Agnus Dei

• Plainchant

  Ecce Virgo concipiet
  Communio 

• Francisco Guerrero

  Ave Maria a 8
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Cappella Pratensis
• Andrew Hallock superius
• Lior Leibovici, Korneel Van Neste altus
• Peter de Laurentiis, Marc Busnel tenor
• Grantley McDonald, Jonty Coy bassus
• Tim Braithwaite artistic direction, superius
• Ensemble La Danserye
• Fernando Pérez Valera, Juan Alberto Pérez Valera, Luis Alfonso Pérez Valera, Eduardo Pérez Valera diverse Renaissance wind instruments