Musica Ficta is a Spanish early music ensemble founded in 1992 by Raúl Mallavibarrena, who is also founder and director of Ensemble Fontegara, and of the record label Enchiriadis. The current ensemble includes: * Musica Ficta: Eva Juárez, Marta Infante, Alicia Berri, Miguel Bernal, Luis Vicente. Mallavibarrena (percussion and director) * Ensemble Fontegara: Marie Nishiyama (renaissance harp), Rafael Bonavita (vihuela and renaissance guitar)

Raúl Mallavibarrena

Mallavibarrena (born

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1970) studied guitar with Carmen Ross at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, flute with Giulio Capocaccia, Music Theory with Alvaro Zaldivar, Chamber Music with

Emilio Moreno Emilio Moreno is a Spanish violin and viola player and conductor. With his brother José Miguel Moreno, a lutenist, he founded Glossa Music.Billboard - 18 Jul 1998 - Page 46 Vol. 110, No. 29 "One of the most compelling is Glossa, founded in 1992 as ...

, Gregorian chant with

Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta (born 1939) is a Spanish vocalist and musicologist specialising in Gregorian chant. Fernández de la Cuesta was born in the village of Neila, Province of Burgos, Burgos, Spain. He entered the Abbey of Santo Domingo d ...

, basso continuo with

Guido Morini Guido Morini (born in Milan in 1959) is an Italian pianist, organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer. In the ensemble Accordone he performs early baroque works with singer Marco Beasley. Beasley is also the librettist for his ''Una Odi ...

, and conducting with Martin Schmidt and Helmut Rilling. Mallavibarrena began directing choirs at age 17, specializing in music of the Renaissance and the Baroque. A notable contribution to the rediscovery of Spanish renaissance music was the recovery and the three-volume complete recording of the 61 spiritual villanescas of

Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero is the name of: *Francisco Guerrero (composer) (1528–1599), Spanish composer of the Renaissance * Francisco Guerrero (politician) (1811–1851), Alcalde of San Francisco *Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951–1997), Spanish composer ...

with the sponsorship of the Junta de Andalucía. In 2005 with the orquesta Civitas Harmoniae, Musica Ficta performed, and Mallavibarrena conducted, the

zarzuela () is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of ...

“Salir el Amor del Mundo" by Sebastián Durón in the Teatro Arriaga of Bilbao.

Discography

*1997 Tomás Luis de Victoria Lamentations

Pedro Ruimonte Pedro Ruimonte (or ''Rimonte'', ''Ruymonte'') (1565 – November 30, 1627) was a Spanish composer and musician who spent much of his career in the Low Countries. Early years He was born in Zaragoza, the son of Pedro Ruimonte and Gracia de Bolea y ...

De profundis C9604 *1998

Motecta C9619 *1999 Cristóbal de Morales – Réquiem. Lamentabatur Jacob. Cantus C9627 / EN2002 *2001 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Missa ''Gaudeamus''. Salve Regina EN2003 *2002 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum. Vadam et circuibo. EN2006 *2003

– Hispalenses EN2009 *2004

– Parnaso Español EN2011 *2005

Cancionero de Turín The ''Cancionero de Turin'' or ''Cancionero Musical de Turin'' is a musical manuscript that contains Spanish secular Polyphony, polyphonic works from the period between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, in the tran ...

– Canciones, romances y villancicos EN2013 *2005

– Villanescas (volume I) EN2014 *2006

Alonso Lobo Alonso Lobo (February 25, 1555 (baptised) – April 5, 1617) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his e ...

– Missae ''Simile est Regnum Caelorum. Petre ego pro te rogavi''. EN2016 *2007

– Villanescas (volume II) EN2018Magazine article from: Fanfare; 5/1/2008; Weber, J F; 470 words GUERRERO Villanescas *2008

– Villanescas (volume III)EN2023 *2010 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Responsories

References

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