PEDRO RUIMONTE - MUSIC AT THE COURT OF THE ARCHDUKES ALBERT & ISABELLA CLARA EUGENIA
La Grande Chapelle, dir. Albert Recasens
Wednesday 22, January | 7:30 pm
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Prior to the concert at 6:15 pm the curator of St John's Co-Cathedral, Mrs. Cynthia De Giorgio, will will give a lecture named 'The Infanta Isabella and her gift of Woven Splendour' at the Oratorio illustrating this link and the important role Isabella Clara played for the arts in those days. The lecture is free for those attending the concert and entrance is at first come, first come basis. If you do not have tickets for the concert, you can buy them here: http://bit.ly/32JXlQ9
Pedro Ruimonte wrote this music between 1601 and 1614 when he was Master of Chamber Music at the Brussels court of the Archduke Albert and his extremely cultured and artistic wife, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia.
PROGRAMME
Peter Philips (1560/61-1628)
Benedictus Dominus, motet 8 vv
Iubilate Deo, motet 8 vv
Pedro Ruimonte (1565-1627)
Quiero dormir y no puedo, villancico 6 vv
Mal puede estar escondida, villancico 6 vv
Pieter Cornet (1570/80-1633)
Fantasia 8° toni (instrumental)
Pedro Ruimonte
¿Has visto al despuntar…?, madrigal 4 vv
Caduco tiempo, madrigal 4 vv
De la piel de sus ovejas, villancico 5 vv (instrumental)
Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, motet 8 vv
Peter Philips
Caecilia virgo, motet 8 vv
Sicut misit me vivens Pater, motete 3 vv
Pedro Ruimonte
Virgen escogida, villancico 5 vv
Anónimo
Como suele el blanco cisne, romance 3 vv
Pedro Ruimonte
Mal guardará ganado, madrigal 4 vv
Esperanza tardía, madrigal 5 vv (1, 3 y 4)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583- 1643)
Canzon vigesimanona, a 8 (instrumental)
Pedro Ruimonte
El que partir se atreve, madrigal 6 vv
De vuestro divino pecho, villancico 6 vv
Peter Philips
O quam suavis est [ii], motet 8 vv
MUSICIANS
La Grande Chapelle, dir. Albert Recasens