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C Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti on the theme C Festa: La Spagna - 32 Contrapunti on the theme "La Spagna" - Huelgas Ensemble; Paul Van Nevel, conductor

Label - Harmonia Mundi

Cat. No. - HMC901799

Costanzo Festa was a singer in the papal choir and a legendary composer, but the 125 variations or Contrapuncti, composed on a single cantus firmus of 37 notes, were never published and forgotten for the rest of the sixteenth century. However they were conceived on a scale unique during the Renaissance and may justly be described as a tour de force. This is due not so much to Festa's technical ingenuity, which is indeed peerless, but to the inexhaustible artistic invention which makes of each contrapunctus a surprising entity in itself. In this respect, the cycle has the same kind of inner force later to be found in Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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