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“Al açento divino”
Geistliche Musik von Sebastián Durón (1660-1716)
Friday 12nd September, 19.30 · St. Franziskuski
Saturday 13rd September, 18.00 · St. Marienkirche
Sebastián Durón composed an abundant quantity of music both sacred and profane: this was his main duty as court chapelmaster. At least eigth of his works for the stage survive, together with a large number of villancicos (devotional music in Spanish, therefore not strictly liturgical, but very popular in the churches of the time). Amongst his best works are probably the large scale liturgical ones (like lamentations, psalms and masses).
“Misa a la moda francesa” is undoubtedly one of the best works of Sebastián Durón, it is a large scale setting of the ordinary of the mass (with the customary movements Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) scored for two choirs (SSAT, SATB), three obligato instrumental parts (natural trumpet and two violins) and continuo. The subtitle “a la moda francesa” means “in the French fashion”, and indeed the piece has a series of features that can be compared to the style of the French grand motet of the time and that were not so much characteristic of Spanish music: constant change in texture, small solo sections alternate with tutti interventions, use of general rests, use of figures with repeated notes (concitato style), and a closer relationship to the text in which short phrases or even single words are musically depicted, as opposed to a more general musical representation of the meaning of the text as a whole. The larger movements (Gloria and Credo) both finish with fugued sections.
Programme · Misa a la Moda Francesa
La Academia de los Nocturnos
Choir I & Solos Eva Maria Soler-Boix* Soprano I
Maria Bayley Soprano II
Livio Ticli Alto
Marcello Mazzetti Tenor
Choir II Victoria Cassano, Junko Takayama* Soprano
Ana María Fonseca Núñez*, Roman Melish* Alto
Sebastian León*, Loïc Paulin Tenor
Csongor Szántó*, Teresa Oltner (Dulcian) Bass
Violins David Alonso-Molina
Matthias Klenota
Violoncello Sarah Souza-Simon
Theorbo Javier Ovejero Mayoral
Harp Louis Capeille*
Clarino Tomohiro Sugimura
Organ Aki Noda 野田 亜希
Harpsichord & direction Isaac Alonso de Molina
Musicological advisor Raúl Angulo Díez
*Thanks to cooperation with Ensemble La Boz Galana
Further programme
Dulce armonía, villancico a 8 (SSAT – SATB, Cl. 2Vl. Bc.)
Ay infelice, villancico de Miserere a 4 (SSAT, Bc.)
Ah del olvido, villancico a 4 (SSAT, Bc.)
Al açento divino (ST, Cl. Bc.)
Cuando muere el sol, villancico de Pasión a 4 (SSAT, Bc.)
Atención a la fragua amorosa (SSAT, Bc.)
