The 58th Indianapolis Early Music Festival present – Musica Ficta: Astros, Luces, Rayos

Sebastián Durón (1660-1716) was arguably the most important Spanish composer of the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. His output of theater music — especially his comedies and zarzuelas — enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime, and many of his works are found in music archives in the Americas: Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru. His music reflects the vitality and cheerfulness of Spanish popular music, which by that time had already assimilated music elements coming from the Americas. This concert program brings to light art songs (both secular tonos humanos and sacred tonos divinos) recently unearthed which have never before been recorded, as well as instrumental pieces by Durón himself and his contemporaries