A Mexican Christmas

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