Volume three of Deutsche Grammophon's Segovia Collection presents an interesting variety of Spanish music that was originally recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. The works performed span several centuries of Spanish music, from the late Renaissance (Luis de Milán) to modern times (Albéniz and Enrique Granados). Segovia never hesitated to play ...
Naïve's compilation album Classique & Zen offers no explanation of the relationship between the two concepts other than the simple direction, "You are free to be Zen." The lack of specificity in no way detracts from the effectiveness of the CD and its artful presentation. It stands out from many of the other collections with the goal of inducing a ...
This disc from the Bogotá, Colombia-based ensemble Música Ficta jumps on the fast-moving bandwagon carrying Baroque music from Latin America. It is billed, with unnecessary specificity, as covering "Feast and Devotion in High Peru of the seventeenth century," but like other releases in this general repertoire it ranges widely, including music from ...
With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. ...
Aguirre is the second disc for the ensemble called Los Otros (The Others), which consists of the partnership of German viol player Hille Perl and American lutenist Lee Santana, along with a a second string player, the appropriately named Steve Player, and Spanish percussionist Pedro Estevan. The group investigates the fascinating repertory of ...
With this collection of seventeenth-century music from Mexico, Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort offer that rare performance that's both intellectually challenging and terrifically fun. The disc includes a mass by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a Spanish composer who came to Puebla, Mexico, to take a post at the city's magnificent cathedral. ...
In this collection of dances and short works for Baroque guitar by Spanish composer Santiago de Murcia (1682-1732?), Paul O'Dette plays some pieces just as written and others with an accompaniment of percussion and other guitars based on clues he finds in the music suggesting supplemental instruments, and the resulting selection is delightfully ...
In this collection of dances and short works for Baroque guitar by Spanish composer Santiago de Murcia (1682-1732?), Paul O'Dette plays some pieces just as written and others with an accompaniment of percussion and other guitars, based on clues he finds in the music suggesting supplemental instruments, and the resulting selection is delightfully ...
The Sonatas Novohispanas II title of this disc is a bit misleading; at least some and perhaps most of the music, unlike on La Fontegara's Sonatas Novohispanas, is European, not composed in New Spain. There are instrumental sonatas by the Italian Pietro Antonio Locatelli and by an unknown composer named Puchinger, several works by the Spaniard ...
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