Spanish Secular Cantatas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96824
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Contents
Works
Filis, que abrigasRespirad, mas sea quedito
Sean, Filis, de mi llanto
Oh, corazon amante
La picarilla mas bella
Por el Tenaro monte
Artists
Cristina Bayon Alvarez (soprano)Noelia Reverte Reche (viola da gamba)
Diego Leveric (archlute)
Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord)
Works
Filis, que abrigasRespirad, mas sea quedito
Sean, Filis, de mi llanto
Oh, corazon amante
La picarilla mas bella
Por el Tenaro monte
Artists
Cristina Bayon Alvarez (soprano)Noelia Reverte Reche (viola da gamba)
Diego Leveric (archlute)
Federico Del Sordo (harpsichord)
About
Cristina Bayón Álvarez has sung with early-music luminaries such as Christophe Coin, Diego Fasolis and Carlos Mena. She has also recorded a pair of warmly received albums for Brilliant Classics, reviving the sacred music of Juan Francés de Iribarren (95859) and Romantic-era songs by female composers (‘Boulevard des femmes’, 96729).
For her latest album, Cristina Bayón Álvarez turns to 18th-century Spain, presenting for the first time on record a sequence of newly edited secular cantatas. These are all brief pieces, taking amorous and pastoral themes for their subjects, alternating recitative and aria, conveying the pain of a lover separated from the object of their affections, or rejected by them. One piece stands out for its relative modernity of sentiment: La picarilla más bella by José de Torres y Martínez Bravo (c.1670-1738), highlighting the contempt for love on the part of a woman who prefers freedom of spirit to the suffering caused by sentimental passion.
The least unfamiliar of the three composers featured on the album is Emanuele Rincón d’Astorga (1680-1775), best known for a Stabat mater of plangent expressive quality. The affecting, Italianate vocal lines of this sacred work also colour the three cantatas recorded here: Filis, que abrigas, Respirad, mas sea quedito and Sean, Filis, de mi llanto.
Astorga made his name outside Spain, though eventually settled and died in Madrid; Juan de Serquiera (c.1655-c.1726) was likely also active in the Spanish capital, though of Portuguese origin. Almost nothing survives of his life and work, which makes the survival of Oh, corazón amante all the more precious, especially since it demonstrates Serquiera’s skill at affective word setting.
José de Torres y Martínez Bravo is recorded as master of music at the Royal Chapel in Madrid from 1697 until his death in 1707. Not least thanks to this distinction, much more is known of his activity, including a keyboard-instruction manual and a set of Masses dedicated to Philip V of Spain. As recorded here, La picarilla más bella and Por el Tenaro monte share the expressive flair and rhythmic energy of his vernacular villancicos. Taken together, the works here make an exciting addition to the catalogue of Spanish Baroque vocal repertoire, especially in such accomplished and stylish performances.
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