The first page of a concert program: “Boston Early Music Festival PRESENTS LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA HESPÈRION XXI JORDI SAVALL, Director & treble viol SONGS, BATTLES, AND DANCES FROM THE OLD AND THE NEW WORLD 1100-1780 Fanfare: Pax in nomine Domini (instrumental) Crusader song - Planctus: Pax in nomine Domini Missa Da pacem: Agnus Dei / Da pacem Domine Aramaic prayer: El pan de la aflicción (in Ladino) Canzon alla villota: La tricotea Samartín la vea (CMP, No. 247) Marcabru (ca. 1110-ca. 1150) Josquin des Prés (ca. 1450/5-1521) Sephardic tradition Alonso Slave song: Another man done gone Pavane La Guerre (instrumental) Pierre Attaingnant (ca. 1494-1552) Ricercare XIV: Da pacem Domine Girolamo Parabosco (ca. 1524-1557) La Negrina: San Sabeya gugurumbé Mateo Flecha, the elder (ca. 1481-ca. 1553) Jarocho son: Los Negritos / Gurumbé Traditional Tiento de Batalla (instrumental) Four-note Pavan: Hear me, O God Mestizo and Indian: Tleycantimo choquiliya Slave song: Look over yonder Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (1561-1627) Alfonso Ferrabosco (ca. 1575-1628) Gaspar Fernandes (ca. 1570-1629) - INTERMISSION -“
The second page of a concert program: “Slave song: You gonna reap what you sow Psalm 137: Al naharot Bavel (By the rivers of Babylon) Salomone Rossi (1570-ca. 1630) The Kings Morisco (instrumental) Robert Johnson (ca. 1583-1633) / William Brade (1560-1630) Villancico: Xicochi conetzintlé / Xochipitzahuatl Fernandes/ Anonymous Nahuatl Guaracha: Ay, que me abraso, ay / Juan García de Zéspedes (ca. 1619-1678) Traditional son from Tixtla / Improvisations: El Arrancazacate Traditional Traditional isiXhosa, Spiritual song and prayer: Indodana In Nomine a 4 (instrumental) From Codex Trujillo del Perú (Lima, ca. 1780) Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Anonymous Tonada El Congo: A la mar me llevan (No. 3, E 178) Tonada de El Chimo: Jaya llînch, jaya llôch (in Mochica language) (No. 6, E 180) Cachua serranita, nombrada El Huicho Nuebo: No ay entendimiento humano (No. 19, E 192) LIVE CONCERT Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 4pm New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts”
Yesterday I attended my favorite annual concert, with this year’s theme especially meaningful to me personally.
For the encore, they played what Savall called “a song for peace,” “Amazing Grace” led by the same singer who’d sung the slave songs.
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