Spanish renaissance music to be performed at WFU
Wake Forest University’s Collegium Musicum will present a performance titled “Renaissance Music of Spain and New Spain” April 16 at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall of the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest. The event is free and open to the public.
Collegium Musicum is a student ensemble devoted to the performance of music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods. The group consists of a small vocal ensemble directed by Wake Forest Associate Professor of Music Brian Gorelick and an instrumental ensemble directed by Wake Forest Professor of Music Stewart Carter.
The concert will feature both sacred and secular works written by the leading Spanish composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
The vocal ensemble will sing selections from Tomas Luis da Victoria, Mateo Flecha, Juan Vasquez and Juan de Anchieta. Collegium instrumentalists will perform the music of Juan del Encina, Johannes Urrede, Cristóbal de Morales and Francisco Guerrero on reproductions of period instruments including shawms, sackbuts, recorders and violas de gamba.
The two ensembles will combine to present Juan Gutierrez de Padilla’s double choir motet “Exsultate iusti in Domino,” written for Puebla Cathedral in Mexico around 1630. Padilla was born in Malaga, Spain, around 1590 and immigrated to what is now Mexico in 1622. He served in many roles at Puebla Cathedral, including maestro di capilla, until his death in 1664.
For more information, call 336-758-5364.
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