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  • Ensemble Villancico 25th Anniversary Concert, Stockholm, November 2020

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  • ¡Fiesta barroca latina! - a staged concert

    Anniversary Tour!

  • "Baroque music in Bolivia" on SVT2 - Swedish Television.

    Watch the trailer of the documentary here!

  • NEW! The Jungle Book of the Baroque

    Early World Music in Latin America

    Scores • Arrangements • Context

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  • Ensemble Villancico & Peter Pontvik
  • "Their interpretation succeeded in shaking off the dust of history"
    Diena, Riga
  • Early world music on CD!

    ¡Tambalagumbá! is the ensemble's seventh CD release, and the forth within Latin American baroque music. This repertoire emerged in the unique meeting between the Indoamerican, African and Spanish/European traditions that had occured in Latin America since the 16th Century. 

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Playlist
  1. Tambalagumbá
  2. María todo es María
  3. Cachua al Nacimento de Christo Nuestro Señor
  4. Una tonadilla nueva
  5. Oy nuestra reyna del ciel
  6. Duo Seraphim clamabant
  7. Serenissima una noche
  8. Tarantela por primer tono
  9. Tleycantimo choquiliya
  10. Aquí aquí valentones
  11. Gallardas from "Luz y norte musical"
  12. Victoria, victoria
  13. Ymaynalla canqui tayta
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CDs

Sweden's Earliest Mass (2019)

 The "Missa Lauda Hierusalem" from 1598 by Bertil Kellner, based on a Orlando di Lasso motet, is the earliest surviving polyphonic Mass setting by a composer active in Sweden. World première on CD!

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¡Tambalagumbá! (2013)

Ensemble Villancico consolidates the concept "EARLY WORLD MUSIC" and presents on this recording a new cavalcade of Latin American baroque music with folklore influences from three continents!

"...a variative, spicy and exciting musical world appears… with temperament, affection and humour! Artistic, tasteful, pleasing to listen to" (Kaj Engelhart, Katolskt magasin)

"Wonderful baroque music...Well played by a tight ensemble and beautiful sonority" (Björn G Stenberg, UNT)

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¡Una tonadilla nueva! (2011)

Ensemble Villancico continues its mission of rediscovering long-lost musical treasures from South America!

”One could not hope for a more engaging introduction." (Gramophone, UK) 

"This is one of the most exciting CDs of the year. Run off and buy!" (Nya Upplagan, Sweden)

  • Read more about ¡Una tonadilla nueva! (2011)

The Källunge Codex 1622 (2005)

The music source of this CD is a mysterious alto part manuscript, rediscovered on the island of Gotland (Sweden). It contains sacred music from the 16th century with origin in Silesia.

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Hy hy hy hy hy hy hy - the New Jungle Book of the Baroque (2002)

Baroque music from Bolivia, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Released on Caprice Records, November 2002 (CAP 21688).

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¡A la xácara! - The Jungle Book of the Baroque (2000)

This CD contains music from Latin America in the Baroque period. It is released on the label Caprice Records (CAP 21658).

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Music from a pack of cards (1999)

On this CD-single you find seven songs by Claudin de Sermisy (ca 1490-1562). The songs are in four parts, and written on the back side of one of the packs of cardsthat come with the magnificent cabinet which in 1632 was presented to the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf by the German city of Augsburg.

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Cancionero de Upsala 1556 (1996)

Cancionero de Upsala is a collection of Spanish madrigals (villancicos) by several composers. The madrigals are in between two and five parts and have lyrics in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan. The collection has survived in the library Carolina Rediviva in Uppsala, Sweden. Proprius (PRCD 9153)

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V Festival de Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana "Misiones de Chiquitos" / CD2

This is one of two CD's recorded during the festival 2004. Contains 23 pieces performed by Ensemble Villancico, Musica Fiorita, Doulce memoire etc.

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IV Festival de Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana "Misiones de Chiquitos" / CD1

This is one of two CD's recorded during the festival 2002. Contains 20 pieces performed by Ensemble Villancico, Florilegium, Hesperus etc.

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