About the composer
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla was born in Malaga, Spain about 1590. He was trained in the
cathedral there and became Master of the Chapel in Jerez in his twenties. The same post he
took in 1629 in the town of Pueblo in Mexico and remained there until his death in 1664.
Padilla is seen as the finest composer of the main Spanish colony in the New World,
writing in the conservative ecclesiastical style with no influences of the new Italian
concertato style.
| Date | ca. 1640? |
| Performers | Mixed choir (SATB) |
| Length | 2.13 minutes |
| Particulars | A polyphonic interpretation of the first stanzas. The melody is much more rhythmic than usual, almost like a march. |
| Textual variations | Only the first two stanzas are sung. |
| CD | Carlton Classics 30366 00802: Victoria and the Music of Imperial Spain |
| About this CD | Works by de Victoria and de Padilla, representing the musical
style in Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella Recorded at the Merton College Chapel, Oxford, in April 1989. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands, 1998 |
| Choir | Mixolydian |
| Conductor | Piers Schmidt |
| Other works | Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa Surge Propera + Alma
Redemptoris Mater Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Missa Ego Flos Campi |
| Added | 1998 (PAD 01) |
E-mail:
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