Putting aside criticism for the hyperbole of this double CD's title, The Ultimate Most Relaxing Guitar Music in the Universe is hard to beat for its plentiful selections, and many casual listeners will find these evocative and generally quiet pieces to be agreeable and soothing. Others who want something more than just pleasant mood music will ...
English lutenist and singer Shirley Rumsey earned high marks, both critically and artistically, for Music of the Italian Renaissance, her debut on Naxos. Rumsey's second go-round with Naxos was Music of the Spanish Renaissance, recorded in 1991. It pulls together some of the "hits" common during the second phase of the Iberian inquisition, a ...
Here Hopkinson Smith, the poet of pluck, takes up five different kinds of lutes plus a vihuela de mano and a Baroque guitar, each of which sounds fantastic in his hands. Whether it's a 13-course Baroque lute for Bach and Weiss; an 11-course Baroque lute for Mouton, Gaultier, or de Gallot; a 10-course Renaissance lute for Kapsperger; an 8-course ...
Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court (1470 -- 1520) is the first release by the Dufay Collective for the Avie Records label, which acts as a clearinghouse for artist-made recordings. Cancionero was made in 1997 on the Dufay's own dime after its relationship with the Chandos label reached the point of no return. That the Dufay Collective went ...
The "música del Delphin" in the title of this disc refers to the 1538 publication Los seis libros del Delphin de música de cifra para tañer vihuela (Six books for the Dauphin, consisting of notated music for playing the vihuela), one of the primary collections of vihuela music from the sixteenth century. The vihuela was the Spanish predecessor to ...
David Russell is a Scottish guitarist, veteran of more than 20 album releases, a master technician, and a performer with an instinctive hold on an audience's attention. Though not known as a Renaissance specialist, he delivers an effective Renaissance program here -- not entirely one of the "favorites" advertised on the cover, and that's what ...
Swedish classical guitarist Göran Söllscher has a certain following among guitar buffs of all kinds thanks to a unique contraption he plays -- an 11-string guitar, built specifically to allow him, like some of his famous predecessors on the classical guitar, to explore the lute repertory of the Renaissance and Baroque periods more fully. He has ...
Música en el Quijote, Orphénica Lyra's 2005 release, is a delightful compilation of Spanish songs and dances from the lifetime of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Corresponding to the various kinds of music described in The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and Cervantes' other writings, the selections are predominantly vocal, sung with ...
With El arte de fantasía, Andrew Lawrence-King and his Harp Consort have once again put together an album that is attractive to hear even as it introduces audiences to an esoteric repertoire. Any lover of harp music might enjoy the pristine sounds and graceful ornaments of Lawrence-King's Spanish double harp and Renaissance harp. The selections ...
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 ...
This ambitious German release takes an unusual cross section of music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which is conventionally divided up by composer, country, genre, or patron. Here the Ensemble Daedalus and its director Roberto Festa instead examine a single affect, melancholy, as it manifested itself in various places ...
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