Michael Alexander Willens: Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas - COMPACT DISCS

Michael Alexander Willens: Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas - COMPACT DISCS

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Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas

Artist:

Michael Alexander Willens

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761203574223

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-01-30

Number of Discs:

1

Christianity, in all it's forms, excels through it's high degree of adaptability. We encounter one of the more fascinating examples of adaptation in Latin American Catholicism that developed in the colonies of "New Spain." Not least did the veneration of Mary find an especially receptive genius loci here, whose musical disposition soon wedded to an artistic concept that was the non plus ultra for the rulers of the Old World. For some composers, the transatlantic regions thus had such appeal that they abandoned their traditional sphere of activity. One of them was the Italian Ignacio de Jerusalem, who worked at the cathedral in Mexico City; he was joined by the Mexican "home-grown talent" Manuel de Sumaya, as well as two Spanish musicians who were known and beloved in the land of the Aztecs only for their printed works. This yields a truly exquisite mix for Christmas.

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