Singing and Chiming. Ancient and Baroque Sounds

Artists

Musica Ficta

Raúl Mallavibarrena, director

Program

Music at the time of Emperor Charles V

Josquin Desprez (c. 1440-1521)

Gaude virgo, mater Christi

Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553)

Lamentabatur Jacob (c. 1543)

Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)

Media vita

Josquin Desprez

Missa Pange lingua (c. 1514)

Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (1485)

Concert with no interval

In co-production with the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical

Polyphony for an Emperor

The Missa Pange lingua, the last of those composed by Josquin Desprez, is one of the most admired musical creations of the entire Renaissance, a true paradigm of the most classical contrapuntal art, governed by transparency and balance. Mallavibarrena and his ensemble put the mass at the centre of a program that includes other popular works of his time, such as the song by Heinrich Isaac or the motets by Cristóbal de Morales and Nicolas Gombert, who, a generation after Josquin, brought imitative polyphony to a complexity as dense as it is dazzling.