With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. Lawrence-King fragments the mass into its individual movements and intersperses secular pieces among them, aiming to demonstrate -- well, what exactly? The album, Lawrence-King ...
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With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. Lawrence-King fragments the mass into its individual movements and intersperses secular pieces among them, aiming to demonstrate -- well, what exactly? The album, Lawrence-King warns, is "a musical exploration, not a liturgical reconstruction"; the Padilla mass would never have been performed this way, although some of the secular xácaras might indeed have had a liturgical function. Instead, writes Lawrence-King in the liner notes, the mass "breathes the spirit of the dance," a spirit especially strong in the music's New World surroundings. The hearer may or may not agree -- dance rhythms were part and parcel of the language of seventeenth-century music...
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Add this copy of Missa Mexicana to cart. $6.41, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Harmonia Mundi.
Add this copy of Missa Mexicana to cart. $7.99, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Harmonia Mundi Fr.