Cappella Mediteranea

Fiesta Barroca

The Codex Martinez Compañon bears witness to the vitality of 18th-century vocal music in South America, and more specifically in Peru: the themes, telescoped with great fantasy and invention, range cheerfully from the religious to the secular; they are based on texts in Spanish and sometimes use indigenous languages, which add their strangeness. Leonardo García-Alarcón invites us to discover these festive Baroque creations issued from the encounter between Spanish rhythms and indigenous traditions.

Between the religious and the secular

During the eighteenth century, taxonomists and naturalists were seeking to classify people, facts and events, according to ethnical criterias In his Codex, Bishop Jaime Baltasar Martínez Compañon applies these same principles to music, classifying and identifying the most significant contributions of Baroque music to the oral tradition in Northern Peru. In order to understand how music evolved and developed from the time of the Incas to present day, we can turn to Spanish chronicles written at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century. As for the growth of Afro-Creole music, we have examined studies on eighteenth-century documents and observed how the form, instrumentation and performance style of the music described in the chronicles has evolved today.

Prochaines dates

13 Décembre 2025

17h00

La Cité Bleue

Geneva, Switzerland

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Program

Yyaî Jesuchristo (Dulce Jesús mío)
Anonymous author (ca.1740) / Archivo misional jesuítico de Chiquitos – Bolivia

Sonata “Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta” pour flute, strings and basso continuo
Anonymus author (ca. 1740) / Archivo misional jesuítico de Chiquitos – Bolivia

Vaya de Xacara amigos
Raphael Antonio Castellanos (Antigua Guatemala, 1765 – Ciudad de Guatemala, 1791)

Codex “Baltasar Martínez Compañón”
Anonymous author (ca. 1785) / Diócesis de Trujillo – Pérou

Alleluia
Anonymous author (18th century) – Santiago de Guatemala

No duermas
Carlos Patiño (Cuenca – Espagne / 1600-1675)

Codex “Baltasar Martínez Compañón”

Lamentatio Jeremiae
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644 – 1728)

Codex “Baltasar Martínez Compañón”

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Cast

Mariana Flores, soprano

Maîtrise du Conservatoire populaire de musique, danse et théâtre de Genève
Magali Dami and Fruzsina Szuromi, chorimasters

Hiraku Iwakawa, Andean flute
Quito Gato, guitar et arrangments

Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García-Alarcón, organ and musical direction

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Archive

23 Janvier 2020

20h00

Auditorium de Radio France

Paris, France

09 Septembre 2023

20h30

La Cité Bleue

Geneva, Switzerland