Spanische Weihnacht mit Al Ayre Español
Das Alte Werk
Spanish Baroque music went into years of slumber until conductor and early music expert Eduardo López Banzo reanimated it with the Al Ayre Español ensemble, which he formed in 1988. The specialists of historically informed performance have been surprising and delighting audiences around the world with secular and sacred Baroque works for 30 years now. With a rousing and thought-provoking programme entitled »¡Vaya pastores de fiesta!«, the Al Ayre Español ensemble is joined by the Vozes del Ayre vocal quintet to celebrate a Spanish Christmas in the Baroque style.
The programme features pieces by important Spanish Baroque composers such as José de Torres and Juan Francés de Iribarren, including Christmas cantatas, dances such as the villancico, and exuberant burlesques. In contrast to holidays associated with the Virgin Mary and the Feast of Corpus Christi, Spanish Christmas celebrations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century were not exclusively of a serious and dignified nature – they also had a vibrant, joyful and humorous side!
Performers
Al Ayre Español
organ and director Eduardo López Banzo
Programme
¡Vaya pastores de fiesta! / Barockes Weihnachten in Spanien
Anónimo
Pasacalles I & II
Juan Manuel de la Puente
Nunca con más sosiego / Cantata al Nacimiento
Antonio Vivaldi
Triosonate g-Moll RV 72
Joseph de Torres
Divino hijo de Adan / Cantada de Navidad
José de San Juan
Una noche que los reyes / Jácara de Navidad
– Interval –
Jaime Facco
Sinfonia II a violoncello solo
Sebastián Durón
El blando susurro / Cuatro al Nacimiento del Señor
Joan Cabanilles
Tiento I de falsas
Anónimo
Canción a dos tiples
Joseph de Torres
Mas no puede ser / Cantada al Nacimiento
Anónimo
Gayta
Juan Francés de Iribarren
Viendo que Gil hizo raya / Jácara de Navidad
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Das Alte Werk
Live Broadcast
This concert will be recorded by NDR Kultur radio station and broadcast at 11:00 on 26 December 2018.