A Spanish Nativity

We are delighted to bring our Spanish Christmas programme to Cambridge on Saturday 5th December.

Our programme draws together an irresistible mix of sumptuous Christmas polyphony and joyful folk influences from the sensual world of Renaissance Spain. Luminous devotional music by the great Spanish masters jostles with classic villancicos (Spain’s answer to the traditional carol) by Guerrero and Rimonte, an exuberant ensalada by Mateo Flecha, and a magnificent retelling of the Epiphany story by Morales, all framed by the crystalline beauty of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Missa O magnum mysterium.

Tomas Luis de Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium (interspersed throughout the programme)
Mateo Flecha el Viejo: Riu riu chiu
Sebastian de Vivanco: Ave Maria
Victoria: Ne timeas Maria
attrib. Hernando Franco: Sancta Maria e y un il huicac
Fernando de las Infantas: Angelus ad Pastores ait
Pedro Rimonte: De la piel de sus ovejas
Cristobal de Morales: Pastores, dicite, quidnam vidistis
Victoria: O Magnum mysterium
Francisco Guerrero: A Un Niño llorando
Flecha el Viejo: El Jubilate
Morales: Cum natus esset