Ambitious even by Jordi Savall's standards, Isabel I: Reina de Castilla (Isabella I: Queen of Spain) is a single disc that attempts nothing less than a musical portrait of Spain during Isabella's rule. The queen is known to Americans principally as the monarch who dispatched Columbus to sail the ocean blue, but several of her other actions (and ...
For fans of the pomp and majesty of royalty, here's a collection of music for Isabel I, the Queen of Castilla (1454 -- 1504). Conceived, compiled, and conducted by Jordi Savall and performed by La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hesperion XXI, the music is an impressive mixture of hymns and marches, songs and dances, strength and sensitivity. ...
AliaVox's Ministriles Reales is a sprawling, two-disc survey of secular music heard in the Spanish royal courts between the middle of the fifteenth century up to the end of the seventeenth. Led by Jordi Savall and performed by musicians drawn from both Hespèrion XX and XXI, it includes a number of pieces Savall has recorded before for AliaVox, but ...
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