12/1 Guitar Potpourri Pepe Romero, Corona Guitar Quartet, and Alfonso Morena are featured in works for solo guitar, four guitars, and guitar with orchestra. It’s a guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.
12/8 An Early Music Christmas from Spain and Mexico No Spanish composer of the sixteenth century was more lauded during his lifetime and for two hundred years after his death than Cristóbal de Morales. We’ll celebrate the Christmas season with Morales’s six-voice Missa Si bona suscepimus, published in Rome in 1544 under his direct supervision, and not recorded commercially until the year 2000, featuring the Tallis Scholars. Festive Christmas dances and villancicos of the Mexican Baroque performed by the Rose Ensemble round out our program of Renaissance and baroque Christmas music from Spain and Mexico.
12/15 Nochebuena with The Spanish Hour Christmas Eve traditions from 17th-century Mexico, El Cant de la Sibil•la (The Song of the Sybill,) a work of prophecy from 15th-century Valencia, and “The Adoration” from Pablo Casals's oratorio El Pesebre (The Nativity) in an historic recording conducted by Casals himself.
12/22 A Spanish Renaissance Christmas The Spanish Siglo de Oro (Golden Age) witnessed an astonishing musical flowering. Enjoy Stile Antico in works for the nativity by the greatest of Spain's composers from the 16th century: Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francisco Guerrero, Alonso Lobo, Cristóbal de Morales, and Mateo Flecha el Vell (the Elder.)
12/29 Hidden Treasures As we get ready to celebrate the New Year, we offer a program of works forgotten by time. These hidden treasures from Spain and the New World are finding a new audience. Today’s program includes a sonata for clarinet and piano by Argentinean romantic Carlos Guastavino, symphonic Basque melodies by Jesús Guridi, and a guitar suite of homecoming by contemporary Galician composer Octavio Vázquez.
