La Grande Chapelle

La Grande Chapelle

He was once Francisco Guerrero's assistant; in 1604 Alonso Lobo himself became Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Seville. But their bond was one for life, as suggested by Lobo's many masses based on Guerrero's work. Albert Recasens links Guerrero's six-part motet Beata Dei genetrix to Lobo's eponymous mass: a generous composition that demonstrates why this composer was considered by his contemporaries to be one of Spain's very greatest composers. 

Programme

• Francisco Guerrero

  Motet: ‘Beata Dei genitrix’ 
  (from: Motecta festorum, Rome 1585) 

  1528-1599
• Alonso Lobo

  Missa ‘Beata Dei genitrix' 
  Kyrie 
  Gloria 

  Motet: ‘O quam suavis est’ 
  Motet: ‘Vivo ego, dicit Dominus’ 
  (from: Liber primus missarum, Madrid 1602) 

  Missa ‘Beata Dei genitrix’ 
  Credo 

  Missa ‘Beata Dei genitrix’ 
  Sanctus-Benedictus 

  Motet: ‘Ave Regina caelorum’ 
  Motet: ‘Quam pulchri sunt’ 
  Motet: ‘Ave Maria’ 
  (from: Liber primus missarum, Madrid 1602) 

  Missa ‘Beata Dei genitrix’ 
  Agnus 

  Motet: ‘Versa est in luctum’ 
  (from: Liber primus missarum, Madrid 1602)
  
  Programme subject to change 

  1555-1617

Musicians

• Axelle Bernage, Raquel Mendes, Irene Mas Salom, María José Pire soprano
• David Feldman, Andrea Gavagnin countertenor
• Andrés Montilla-Acurero, William Knight, Ferran Mitjans, Jérémie Couleau tenor
• Marcus Schmidl, Gabriele Lombardi bass
• Jorge López-Escribano organ
• Albert Recasens musical direction