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Two singers, both baritones -- both good, in contrasting styles -- are used sparingly; out of the 29 tracks, only seven are songs. Almost, they are palette-cleansers. The main courses are the various instrumental offerings, many of them anonymous, by the two ensembles. The recorder playing of the group Il Curioso impresses immediately
[listen -- 8.557138, track 1, 0:00-0:32].
Whatever the pace, they play so much as an ensemble that at times it's like listening to a rather unusual chamber organ, so strong is the sense of a single musician at work. The members of the Hedos Ensemble are no less accomplished, even virtuosic. Listen, for example to the recorder work on Der gestreifft Dantz/Gassenhauer
[listen -- 8.557138, track 11, 1:28-1:59].
Timbral variety is further provided by those pieces which employ crumhorns and shawms. However, nothing quite beats the simple rendition, for four recorders, of that lovely Heinrich Isaac song: Innsbruck, ich mus dich lassen.
This is a delightful recording, and makes a lovely companion-piece to the much earlier Naxos album of music from the same period: Tugend und Untugend -- (Virtue and Vice), which focused more closely on the songs of the time.
Copyright © 22 June 2006
Rex Harley, Cardiff UK
Alfonso X el Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria
2564 61924-2 DDD Stereo REISSUE 56'10" 1999 Erato Disques; 2004 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Camerata Mediterranea (Françoise Atlan, voice; Hayet Ayad, voice; Anne Azéma, voice; Equidad Bares, voice; Joel Cohen, lute and voice; Shira Kammen, harp and vielle;); Joel Cohen, director; Abdelkrim Rais Andalusian Orchestra of Fès (Aziz Alami, taar and voice; Abdessalam Amri, darbouka and voice; Mustapha Amri, viola and voice; Mohammed Briouel, violin, viola and voice; Salah Chraki, canun; Saïd Chraibi, tenor and voice; Rachid Lebbar, ud and voice); Mohammed Briouel, director
King Alfonso X of Spain ('El Sabio' - the Wise) (1221-1284): Nawba Ramal al-Maya Bughya (overture) - Instrumental; Cantiga 100: Santa Maria, strela do dia; Cantiga 406: Ben vennas, Mayo; Cantiga 370: Loemos muit'a Virgen; Cantiga 90: Sola fusti, senlleira; Cantiga 52: Mui gran dereit'é - Instrumental; Nawba Gharibat al-Husayn Tushiyas (prelude) - Instrumental; Cantiga 230: Tod'ome deve dar loor; Cantiga 130: Quen entender quiser; Cantiga 56: Gran dereit'é; Nawba Irak al-Ajam Mizan Dari - Sana 'Kouli Lmalihti' - Instrumental; Cantiga 320: Santa Maria leva; Cantiga 200: Santa Maria loei; Cantiga 417: Nobre don e muy preçado; Nawba Gharibat al-Husayn Mizan Bacit - Sana 'Kad nilto hibbi' - Instrumental; Cantiga 140: A Santa Maria dadas; Nawba Rasd al-dhil Mizan Koddam - Sana 'Allah hoo Yalamo'; Cantiga 250: Por nos Virgen Madre (Cantigas de Santa Maria - a collection of more than 400 sacred songs to the Virgin Mary) |
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Music from the time of Tilman Riemenscheider
8.557138 DDD Stereo NEW RELEASE 60'25" 2005 Naxos Rights International Ltd
Martin Hummel, baritone; Harmut Hein, baritone; Il Curioso; Hedos Ensemble; Bernhard Böhm
Anon: Mein Herz in Freuden sich erquicket; Jean Mouton: Jamais; Anon: Basse Danse 'La Magdalena'; Anon: Tourdion; Anon: Basse Danse 'La gatta'; Anon: Zenner, greiner, wie gefelt dir das?; Heinrich Finck: Greiner, zanner; Paul Hofhaimer: Greyner, zanner, eifrer; Anon: Groß Sehnen ich im Herzen trag; Anon: Ich tät mir auserwählen; Anon: Der gestreifft Dantz/Gassenhauer; Anon: Se hyn mein hercz; Anon: Ich spring an diesem ringe; Johann Walter: Aus tiefer Not; Thomas Stoltzer: Ich klag den Tag; Heinrich Isaac: Innsbruch, ich muß dich lassen; Thomas Stoltzer: Entlaubet ist der Walde; Anon: Wir zogen in das Feld; Anon: Es solt ein man kein mole farn; Anon: Der wallt hat sich entlaubet; Anon: Ich sachs eins mals; Anon: Elslein; Erasmus Lapicida: Tandernaken; Anon: Der Vöglein Art; Anon: Katzenpfote; Anon: Alle furf; Anon: Canto dei lanzi allegri; Jacob Obrecht: Rompeltier (Rumfeltiere, Rumfeldaer); Anon: Es wolt ein Jäger jagen |
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