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 a ...

, Gregorian chant with

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, basso continuo with Guido Morini, and conducting with Martin Schmidt and

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. 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

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with the sponsorship of the

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. 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 o ...

“Salir el Amor del Mundo" by

Sebastián Durón Sebastián Durón (19 April (baptized) 1660 – 3 August 1716) was a Spanish composer. Life and career Sebastián Durón Picazo was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, ...

in the

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Discography

*1997

Tomás Luis de Victoria Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as ''da Vittoria''; ) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Re ...

Lamentations Pedro Ruimonte De profundis C9604 *1998

Motecta C9619 *1999

Cristóbal de Morales Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500 – between 4 September and 7 October 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Tomás Luis de Victoria. Life Cristóbal de Mor ...

– Réquiem. Lamentabatur Jacob. Cantus C9627 / EN2002 *2001

– Missa ''Gaudeamus''. Salve Regina EN2003 *2002

– Officium Defunctorum. Vadam et circuibo. EN2006 *2003

– Hispalenses EN2009 *2004 Pedro Ruimonte – Parnaso Español EN2011 *2005

Cancionero de Turín A chansonnier (, , Galician and , or ''canzoniéro'', ) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally " song-books"; however, some manuscripts are called ...

– 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 equal ...

– 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

– Responsories

References

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