Celebrate the season with celestial works from Spain & New Spain. Music by Iribarren, Salazar, others, including Zumaya, the first Mexican classical composer of indigenous descent.
This holiday program of celestial works from Spain and New Spain includes lively villancicos and cantatas for voices and instruments by Spanish composers Juan Francés de Iribarren and Joaquín García de Antonio, Guatemalan composer Rafael Antonio Castellanos, Cuban composer Esteban Salas y Castro, and Mexican composers Antonio de Salazar and Manuel de Zumaya, who was the first Mexican Classical composer of Indigenous descent. Instrumental works include trio sonatas by the Catalan brothers ... view more »
This holiday program of celestial works from Spain and New Spain includes lively villancicos and cantatas for voices and instruments by Spanish composers Juan Francés de Iribarren and Joaquín García de Antonio, Guatemalan composer Rafael Antonio Castellanos, Cuban composer Esteban Salas y Castro, and Mexican composers Antonio de Salazar and Manuel de Zumaya, who was the first Mexican Classical composer of Indigenous descent. Instrumental works include trio sonatas by the Catalan brothers Juan and José Pla, the Spanish composers Antonio Rodriguez de Hita, Juan Cabanilles, and Antonio Martín y Coll. Also featured will be the world premiere reconstruction of a Pastorela by an anonymous composer associated with the Puebla Cathedral in Mexico. Vocal soloists will be Adriana Ruiz, soprano and Hilary Anne Walker, mezzo-soprano.
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