Survival of the melodies that went with these poetic Cantigas de amigo (the reference is to the common description of the unattainable lady of courtly love poetry as a "friend") was only spotty; and performers have reconstructed them with varying degrees of freedom. Martin Codax was a poet and singer working in the Galician-Portuguese language, ...
Music for Alfonso the Wise by redoubtable English period instrument ensemble the Dufay Collective is not a collection of usual suspect Cantigas de Santa Maria, but attempts to re-create the lost heritage of the secular music that surrounded Alfonso X's court during his reign. Utilizing instruments reconstructed from miniatures, paintings, and ...
The words sumptuous and ambitious both apply to this release by soprano Montserrat Figueras, accompanied by musicians from the orbit of early music miracle-maker Jordi Savall. Consider the hardbound, 170-page booklet, with no fewer than 44 reproductions of medieval Iberian artwork and music manuscript, many in full color. It's true that the 170 ...
Instead of focusing on a single work or repertory, Jordi Savall, together with his wife Montserrat Figueras and their children Arianna and Ferran Savall, here offers what he terms "a highly personal selection of the music that has moved us by its tenderness and beauty, as well as its ability to promote dialogue and harmony." Thus we have melodies ...
One of the most painful results of the reorganization of the former Polygram under the Universal Music Group banner was that the musical world bade farewell to the L'Oiseau Lyre imprint. However, in time Decca came to realize that the lyrebird of old had a certain cachet with classical music buyers, and it reintroduced some titles beginning in ...
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