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Christmas in PueblaSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO By the early 1620s when Juan Gutirrez de Padilla migrated from Cdiz to New Spain (modernday Mexico) in search of new horizons as a music director, composer and instrument maker the colony was an important and wealthy outpost of the Habsburg Empire, keen to maintain the religious and musical customs of its mother country. The cathedral of the young, thriving city of Puebla de los ngeles was still a magnificent work in

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In this case its “portrait of premieres” spotlights Kerensa Briggs

mostly played on a double-manual harpsichord by Bruce Kennedy inspired by the extended Ruckers 1624 instrument Handel is known to have owned

From the opening of Let the florid music praise

Brett Cox (track 14)

sparse textures shot through with faint gleams

"listen & then listen again & again to the music

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And the pieces with percussion are evocative and entirely apt

The resulting Romantic fervour is an aspect of Christmas that is sometimes lost amid the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Christmas trees and domestic bliss

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Catalogue No: DCD34184