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.Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe 2005 p.262 Cos de Mestres. Educació Musical. Temari Isabel Gil Vera / Cuerpo de Maestros. Educación Musical. Temario. Isabel Gil Vera
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 Oviedo 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, Gregorian chant with Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta, basso continuo with Guido Morini, and conducting with Martin Schmidt and Helmut Rilling.biography in Spanish 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 with the sponsorship of the Junta de Andalucía.
In 2005 with the orquesta Civitas Harmoniae, Musica Ficta performed, and Mallavibarrena conducted, the zarzuela “Salir el Amor del Mundo" by Sebastián Durón in the Teatro Arriaga of Bilbao.
Discography
1997 Tomás Luis de Victoria Lamentations Pedro Ruimonte De profundis C9604"The surprise of the year" El País 1998 Francisco Guerrero Motecta C9619 1999 Cristóbal de Morales – Réquiem. Lamentabatur Jacob. Cantus C9627 / EN2002 2001 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Missa Gaudeamus. Salve Regina EN2003The Dallas Morning News 6/6/2001; 700+ words Missa Gaudeamus Musica Ficta" 2002 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum. Vadam et circuibo. EN2006Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2003; Anderson, Rick; 560 words Officium Defunctorum 2003 Francisco Guerrero – Hispalenses EN2009 2004 Pedro Ruimonte – Parnaso Español EN2011 2005 Cancionero de Turín – Canciones, romances y villancicos EN2013CANCIONERO DE TURÍN Magazine article from: Fanfare; 5/1/2007; Brenesal, Barry; 700+ words 2005 Francisco Guerrero – Villanescas (volume I) EN2014 2006 Alonso Lobo – Missae Simile est Regnum Caelorum. Petre ego pro te rogavi. EN2016Magazine article from: Fanfare; 5/1/2007; Weber, J F; 576 words regnum caelorum. Petre ego pro te rogavi 2007 Francisco Guerrero – Villanescas (volume II) EN2018Magazine article from: Fanfare; 5/1/2008; Weber, J F; 470 words GUERRERO Villanescas 2008 Francisco Guerrero – Villanescas (volume III)EN2023 2010 Tomás Luis de Victoria – Responsories
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