A Mexican Christmas
NV6375 (Navona Records, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (12 November 2021)
Tracks: 12
℗ 2021 Navona Records
© 2021 Navona Records
Main country of recording: United States of America
Reviewer: Keith Bramich
Review of A Mexican Christmas published on 25 December 2021
The Newberry Consort
Ellen Hargis, director
David Douglass, director
EnsAmble Ad-Hoc
Francy Acosta, director
José Luis Posada, director
Juan Gutiérrez De Padilla:
1 Introducción/Christus natus est nobis
2 Voces, las de la capilla
Gaspar Fernández:
3 Andrés ¿Do queda el ganado? (guineo)
José De Cáseda:
4 Qué música divina
Fray Jerónimo Gonzalez:
5 Serenísima una noche
Juan Gutiérrez De Padilla:
6 Al establo más dichoso
Joan Cererols Montserrat:
7 Suspended, Cielos, vuestro dulce canto
Juan Gutiérrez De Padilla:
8 Si al nacer o miniño
Gaspar Fernández:
9 Dame albriçias, mano Antón (negrito)
Santiago De Murcia, arranged by J L Posada:
10 Cumbé
11 La Azucena
Juan García De Zéspedes:
12 Convidando está la noche
The Newberry Consort and EnsAmble Ad-Hoc present A Mexican Christmas, an album of seventeenth century traditional music for worship and celebration. The collection features pieces commonly heard in both liturgical service and in the streets, and evokes the solemnity and fanfare heard in Mexico City's convents and plazas, with jubilant vocals and lively strings, guitars, and percussion. Organ, harp, bassoon and a variety of Mexican traditional instruments bring this exuberant and diverse music to life.
Recorded live on 8 December 2019 at First United Methodist Church, Evanston IL, USA