Música Temprana

Música Temprana

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Why does the San Antonio Abad archive in Cusco house so many lamentations? Did a local tradition exist and if so: why? Did the oppressed people recognise themselves in the lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah? Did Jerusalem’s fate resonate in the ruins left by the colonists?  

Cusco was once the capital of the Incas, the Rome of South America. A few decades after the arrival of conquistador Pizarro, a cathedral stood there. The music, too, was European, with lamentations initially following Spanish polyphonic trends, but by around 1750 becoming permeated with Italianisms. Música Temprana presents the results of a heroic round of transcription and reconstruction in its selection of lamentations and villancicos de pasión from Cusco and Sucre.  

Programme

• Anonymous

  Lamentación, Miércoles Sancto a 7

  Cuzco 18th century
• Juan de Araujo

  Lamentación, Miércoles, a 4

  1646-1712
• Anonymous

  Responsorios, a 4
  In Monte Oliveti
  Tristis est anima mea
  Ecce vidimus eum

  Córdoba 18th century
• Anonymous

  Lamentación 1ª, Jueves Santo, a 5

  Cuzco 18th century
• Anonymous

  Stabat Mater: Ane nupaquima suchetaña

  Chiquitos 18th century
• Andrés Flores

  Con tan tierno llanto, a 2

  fl. 1650-1712
• Anonymous

  Lamentación 2ª Miércoles, a 3

  Cuzco 18th century
• Anonymous

  Lamentación 2ª, Viernes Santo, a 4

  Cuzco 18th century
• Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

  Lamentación 1ª Miércoles, a 7
  
  Programme subject to change

  1644-1728

Musicians

• Lina López, Olalla Alemán soprano
• Victoria Cassano, Luciana Cueto alto
• Jan van Elsacker, Camilo Delgado Díaz tenor
• Pablo Acosta bass
• François de Rudder, Wouter Verschuren dulcian
• Johanna Seitz harp
• Nick Milne viola da gamba
• Jorge López Escribano organ
• Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel guitar, musical direction