The last concert of the XI International Festival of Ancient Music of Caimari 2021 is entitled Milano Spagnolo, also the title of the new album by Evangelina Mascardi (vihuela) and Maurizio Croci (harpsichord). It is celebrated in the Immaculada Concepció de Caimari church.
Argentine Evangelina Mascardi (Buenos Aires, 1977) is one of the best lute players on the current international scene and is considered an eminence of the plucked string. In 1997 she emigrated to Europe to study lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where she obtained the Solisten Diplom in 2001.
For more than ten years she collaborated as a regular continuo player under the direction of Jordi Savall, Marc Minkowsky, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini, Chiara Banchini and Simon Rattle. With them she has recorded more than thirty CDs. She is currently focusing her collaboration with the Zefiro Ensemble and the Monteverdi Choir, to give priority to her solo activity.
Maurizio Croci, for his part, is a renowned international organ soloist, organ professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and artistic director of the Friborg International Organ Festival (Switzerland) and the Milano Arte Musica festival. In 2012 he founded the Il Pegaso ensemble, a very versatile group made up of specialists in early music. His most recent project is Travestimenti, focusing on rare counterfacts and intabulations of Monteverdi's music.
Program Milano Spagnolo:
the Bataglia Taliana (Secunda Pars), by Matthias Hermann Werrecore (before 1522 - post 1574)
La Cara cossa del Berdolin, Anonymous (16th century)
Au joli bois (Johannes Lupi), by Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Cuatro diferencias sobre la Pavana, by Enríquez de Valderrábano (fl. 1547)
Fabordones del premier tono llano, by Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Fantasía de Tento, by Luis Milan (before c. 1500 - post c. 1560)
Soneto lombardo, by Enríquez de Valderrábano (fl. 1547)
Canción glosada Triste départ (Nocilas Gombert), by Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Pavana chiamata la Gombertina, by Pietro Paolo Borrono (c. 1490-95-post 1563)
Benedicta es regina caelorum (josquin Des Prez: (First part) -Duo-Third part, by Antonio Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de luduvico, by Alonso Mudarra (C. 1510-1580)
Hymn Christe redemptor omnium, by Antonio Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Tiento de vihuela I, by Francesdo da Milano (1497-1543)
Conde Claros, by Alonso Mudarra (C. 1510-1580)
Diferencias sobre el canto de la Dama le demanda, by Antonio Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
Pavana con su glosa / Diferencias sobre la Gallarda Milanesa, by Antonio Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)
The XI Festival Internacional de Música Antiga de Caimari 2021is celebrated from September 18 to October 16 with four concerts in the new church of Caimari and one in Ca Ses Blaies, in Selva. All of them are free. Tomeu Seguí Campins is the artistic director and coordinator of the Festival.
