Capilla Peñaflorida
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The Capilla Peñaflorida is a Spanish early music
group founded in 1985 by Jon Bagüés.
The first director was the late José Rada Sereno (1947-2001). Currently musical direction is shared by the founder, the Basque musicologist Jon Bagüés (b.Errenteria 1955), and by the bass
Josep Cabré. The ensemble has also been directed by guest conductors including the French cellist Christophe Coin and Italian harpsichordist Fabio Bonizzoni.
The name is a tribute to the work of Don Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez
, count of Peñaflorida, (Azcoitia, 1723-Vergara, 1785) although the original count did not himself have a capilla, but was responsible instead for promoting musical education and arts in the Basque Country
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Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
group founded in 1985 by Jon Bagüés.
The first director was the late José Rada Sereno (1947-2001). Currently musical direction is shared by the founder, the Basque musicologist Jon Bagüés (b.Errenteria 1955), and by the bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
Josep Cabré. The ensemble has also been directed by guest conductors including the French cellist Christophe Coin and Italian harpsichordist Fabio Bonizzoni.
The name is a tribute to the work of Don Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez
Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez
Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez, Conde de Peñaflorida , was an important figure of Enlightenment Spain...
, count of Peñaflorida, (Azcoitia, 1723-Vergara, 1785) although the original count did not himself have a capilla, but was responsible instead for promoting musical education and arts in the Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
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Discography
- 1991 - Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
(1639-1710). Elkar 260. - 1993 - José Rada In Memoriam. Elkar KD-342.
- 1996 - José de NebraJosé de NebraJosé Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco was a Spanish composer.José de Nebra was born in Calatayud and was taught by his father, José Antonio Nebra Mezquita , organist and master of choirboys at the Cathedral of Cuenca 1711-1729...
: Viento es la dicha de Amor. Capilla Peñaflorida with the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. Christophe Coin. Audivis Valois 4752 - 1996 - Juan VásquezJuan Vásquez (composer)Juan Vásquez was a Spanish priest and composer of the renaissance. He can be considered part of the School of Andalusia group of composers along with Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, Juan Navarro Hispalensis and others.-Biography:Even relative to the standards of early music composers,...
: Agenda Defunctorum. Almaviva 0122. - 1997 - Vísperas de Santa María. 14th Centenary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osma-Soria. Valladolid GAM 9710025.
- 1998 - Francisco Guerrero: Missa "Puer natus est" - Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales. Almaviva 0126.
- 1999 - Salve Reyna: Música Española. by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, Joan CererolsJoan CererolsJoan Cererols was a Catalan musician and Benedictine monk. His musical production includes a Requiem composed in the mid-seventeenth century during the great plague which ravaged Barcelona, and a Missa de Batalla which celebrates the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples.Cererols was born in...
, Antonio Martín y CollAntonio Martín y CollAntonio Martín y Coll was a Spanish organist, composer and collector of Baroque music.-Biography:Martín y Coll grew up in a monastery and eventually became a Franciscan friar. The last years of his life were spent in a the monastery of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid...
, Carlos PatiñoCarlos PatiñoCarlos Patiño was a Spanish baroque composer.Patiño was a choirboy at Seville Cathedral where he studied with Alonso Lobo. He married in 1622 but his wife's death in 1625 led to his entry into the priesthood...
, Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
. Glissando 777 005-2. - 2004 - Juan de AnchietaJuan de AnchietaJuan de Anchieta was a leading Spanish Basque composer of the Renaissance, at the Royal Court Chaplaincy in Granada of Queen Isabel I of Castile.-History:...
: Missa Sine Nomine. Salve Regina. with the Ministriles de Marsías. recorded 2000. Naxos 8.555772. - 2004 - Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
: Officium Et Missa Pro Defunctis. dir.Cabré K617162. - 2005 - Juan de AnchietaJuan de AnchietaJuan de Anchieta was a leading Spanish Basque composer of the Renaissance, at the Royal Court Chaplaincy in Granada of Queen Isabel I of Castile.-History:...
: Missa Rex Virginum - Motecta. dir.Cabré K617178. - 2006 - Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
: Complete Vespers of Our Lady. with Ministriles de Marsías. Naxos 8.555907. - 2007 - Fray José de LarrañagaJosé de LarrañagaFray José de Larrañaga was a Franciscan monk, organist, maestro de capilla of the Sanctuary of Arantzazu, composer, and active in the Basque musical and cultural movement of the 18th Century.-Life:...
(1728-1806): Obras religiosas. dir. Fabio Bonizzoni. NB Musika005. - 2008 - Urbán de VargasUrbán de Vargas-Life:Urbano Barguilla y de Ripalda was born in 1602 in Falces, south of Navarra. And studied with the maestro de capilla at Burgos, Luis Bernardo Jalón, known for his polemic activities and radical views on music...
(1606-1656): Quicumque. with the Ministriles de Marsías. NB NB010. - 2008 - Juan de AnchietaJuan de AnchietaJuan de Anchieta was a leading Spanish Basque composer of the Renaissance, at the Royal Court Chaplaincy in Granada of Queen Isabel I of Castile.-History:...
: Missa de Nostra Dona. with the Ministriles de Marsías. NB NB012. - 2011 - Juan García de BasurtoJuan García de BasurtoJuan García de Basurto was a Spanish composer and cantor of the Cathedral of Tarazona.He was active at the time the Flemish Chapel included Pierre de Manchicourt and Philippe Rogier....
(c.1480-1548) video In agendis mortuorum NB musika.