El Clave del Emperador: Diego de Pantoja and his Legacy

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Label: IBS Classical

Cat No: IBS142021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd December 2021

Artists

Todos los tonos y aires
Ileber Ensemble

Artists

Todos los tonos y aires
Ileber Ensemble

About

The selection of works included in this recording provides a small sample of the extraordinary cultural diversity that existed at the Chinese Court over almost two centuries as a result of the stimulus of Diego de Pantoja and his introduction of European music into the Forbidden City. Divided into four large sections that portray and recreate different moments of this unique historical episode, the pieces are linked without interruption, respecting the programmatic form conceived for the concerts: the journey begins with the music of Pantoja’s time, uncovering his musical legacy through the accounts that have come down to us thanks to the missionaries who lived at the Court until the end of the eighteenth century.

This programme is a tribute to the Spanish Jesuit Diego de Pantoja (1571-1618) on the 450th anniversary of his birth. Pantoja was the first European who, together with the Italian Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), entered the service of the Chinese Court at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This marked the beginning of a unique episode in history in terms of the length and breadth of cultural, scientific and artistic relations between two very different worlds.

Contents:

I. From Valdemoro to Beijing
1. Exaltata es, Sancta Dei Genitrix (Rodrigo de Ceballos)
2. Minguillo vamos a ver (anon.)
3. Nueva empresa de Ignacio (anon.)
4. Pater peccavi (Duarte Lobo)
5. Gloria in excelsis Deo (anon.)
6. Liangshan (Gloria) (anon.)

II. The Congregations of Beijing
7. Sandixima (Sanctissima) (anon.)
8. Il pietoso Gesù (Francisco Soto de Langa)
9. Nell’apparir del sempiterno Sole (Francisco Soto de Langa)

III. Music, Cosmos, and Man: Theory for the Emperor
10. Gloria Patri (Magnificat Primi Toni) (Cristóbal de Morales)
11. Paradigmata (Lelio Colista?)
12. Antidotum tarantulae (anon.)
13. Tono hypodorio (anon., arr. Leonardo Antonio Di Chiara)

IV. Music for the Emperor
14. Sonata IV: Grave (Teodorico Pedrini)
15. Sonata IV: Cantabile (Teodorico Pedrini)
16. Dao chun lai (The Coming of Spring) (anon.)
17. Xiao liangzhou (The Small, Beautiful Island) (anon.)
18. Liuyejin (Brocade of Willow Tree Leaves) (anon.)
19. Bang zhuangtai (Near the Boudoir) (anon.)
20. Shiliuhua (The Pomegranate Blossom) (anon.)
21. Liuyejin [reprise] (anon.)
22. Dahe qu (The Great Harmony) (anon.)
23. Youzi yin (The Traveller’s Song) (anon.)
24. Les Sauvages (Jean-Philippe Rameau)

Epilogue
25. A Chinese Air (anon.)

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