El Felicissimo Viaje (Orcera, Jaén)
🎶 XXI FeMAAV 2025
Ensemble La Danserye
Director: Fernando Pérez Valera
📅 Date: November 1, 2025
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Venue: Orcera – Municipal Theatre
🎼 Program
“El Felicissimo Viaje…”
Music for the journey of Emperor Charles V and Prince Philip across Europe (1548–1551)
This concert recreates one of the most carefully cultivated aspects in the life of Philip II of Spain: music.
The program is based on the chronicle by Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella, author of “El Felicísimo Viaje del muy alto y poderoso príncipe Phelippe…” (1552), a key historical source that documents in remarkable detail the European journey of the young prince.
Drawing from its descriptions, this program reconstructs some of the music that may have accompanied this important historical event.
🎵 Musical Program
Anonymous
- 02:24 – Fanfare of Charles V’s Ship
Tielman Susato
- 05:29 – Pavane Mille regretz
- 10:38 – Bergerette Dont vient cela – Reprise
- 13:09 – Allemaingne I – Recoupe
- 15:57 – Pass et medio – Reprise Le pingne
- 18:42 – Den III Ronde – Den IIII Ronde
- 21:58 – Den V Ronde – VIII Ronde Mille Ducas en vostre bource
- 28:25 – Pavane La Battaille
- 31:36 – Bergerette – Reprise
- 35:07 – Danse du Roy – VII Ronde Il estoit une filette
- 41:37 – Basse danse Mon desir – Bergerette noch eens
- 46:23 – Pavane and Galliard Mille ducas
- 49:12 – La Morisque
- 53:16 – BIS: Danse de Hercules oft maticine
Josquin des Prez
- 08:43 – Adieu, mes amours
Antonio de Cabezón
- 24:01 – Diferencias sobre el canto llano del Caballero
⏱️ Duration
60 minutes
📜 Musical Sources
- Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, Venice, 1501
- Het derde Musyck boexken, Antwerp, 1551
- Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Madrid, 1578
👉 Performed from facsimile editions of the original sources.
👥 Performers
Ensemble La Danserye
- Fernando Pérez Valera — cornett, mute cornett, sackbut, orlo, rackett, recorders, and director
- Juan Alberto Pérez Valera — shawms, bajoncillo, orlo, rackett, recorders
- Luis Alfonso Pérez Valera — sackbut, natural horn, orlo, rackett, recorders
- Eduardo Pérez Valera — dulcian, bajoncillos, shawms, orlo, rackett, recorders
- Luis Vives — percussion
- Verónica Plata — narration
🏛️ About Ensemble La Danserye
Founded in 1998 in Calasparra (Murcia, Spain), Ensemble La Danserye is dedicated to the research, reconstruction, and performance of wind music from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque, with a particular focus on the Renaissance.
They perform on historical instruments reconstructed by the ensemble itself and hold the largest collection of Renaissance wind instruments in Spain.
They have performed at major early music festivals in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, the Netherlands, and Belgium, presenting projects focused on the recovery of Hispanic musical heritage.
Notable achievements include world premiere recordings of repertoire preserved in:
- Puebla Cathedral (Mexico)
- Manuel de Falla Archive (Granada)
Since 2013, they have been ensemble-in-residence at the:
👉 Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza
🤝 Collaboration
In collaboration with the Orcera Town Council
🎥 Video
Source: FeMAAV
