#15 NACHTKONZERT: POLYPHONIE AUS GUATEMALA

Performers:
Jonatan Alvarado vocals, Ariel Abramovich vihuela

Program:

"HUEHUETENANGO"

First book
which contains some parts of masses, a Magnificat and other things for tenor singing
Anonymous
1. Virgen Madre de Dios
Ms. 7, f. 5r (only alto and bass preserved)
2. Introito: 'Salve Sancta Parens'
Kyriale Ms. 11 ff.13v-14r.
3. Kyrie eleison
Ms. 8, ff. 8v-9r
4. Pleni sunt de la Misa sine nomine
Ms. 1, ff. 14v-15r
5. Antiphona Ad Magnificat: 'Gloriose Virginis'
Antifonario 13 f. 7v
Magnificat 8 toni
Ms. 2, ff. 15v-17r
6. Benedicamus Domino
Ms. 3, ff. 33v-34r
Ms. 5, f. 23v; ff. 31v-32r
Deo Gratias
Based on Ms. 8, ff. 27v-28r

Second book
which contains motets for four, by quite outstanding authors
7. Paratum cor meum ('Le content est riche') [Claudin de Sermissy]
Ms. 8, ff. 48v-49r
8. Pater Noster
Ms. 8, ff. 61v-62r
9. Hic solus [dolores nostros]
Ms. 8, ff. 21v-22r
Susato, 'Ecclesiasticarum cantionum', liber 2 f.ix
10. Juan de Anchieta O bone Jesu
Ms. 8, ff. 58v-59r
11. Pedro de Escobar Cananea [Clamabat Autem mulier cananea]
Ms. 8, ff. 18v-19r; 56v-57r;
Ms. 9, ff. 12v-13r

Third book
which contains a Strambote and an old romance for four; Christmas carols for three and four in Castilian as well as two carols in French for tenor and voice
12. Pierre Moulu Salamanca [Amy soufrez]
Ms. 8, ff. 30v-31r
Valderrabano, 'Silva de Sirenas'
13. Sebastiano Festa [¿]Edmini [Amor che mit tormenti]
MS. 8, ff. 36v-37r
14. Juan Vasquez ¿Con qué la lavaré?
'Morraleos'
Ms. 8, ff. 51v-52r
15. Romance [De Antequera sale el moro]
Ms. 2, ff. 1v-2r
16. Dame acojida en tu hato
Ms. 4, ff. 21v-22r
Copla from Cancioneiro de Belem, ff. 66v; Daza, 'El Parnaso', f. 96v-97r
17. Juan Vasquez Mulier quit ploras ['Puse mis amores en Fernandillo']
Ms. 8, ff. 21v-22r

Alvarado sings and plays (very) old songs that can be found in the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts scattered throughout the world or in the oral traditions of Europe and America. Ariel Abramovich decided as a teenager to devote himself to the lute and vihuela repertoire of the 16th century and studied with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
They both leafed through the folios of the Huehuetenango chant manual: 15 volumes of polyphonic and Gregorian chants from northern Guatemala. From the more than 350 works recorded between 1582 and 1635, the duo has selected mass movements, motets, chansons and villancicos that provide an insight into intercontinental musical traffic on the eve of the Baroque. They subtly bring an extraordinary program back to life in the intimate atmosphere of a night concert.