Luz del Alva

La Morra

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Released:
2012

Track 16: De ser mal casada (Diego Fernández)

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LUZ DEL ALVA – Spanish Songs of the Early Renaissance

Label: RAMÉE (RAM 1203), 2012

The reign of the Catholic Monarchs (los reyes cathólicos) – a stormy period in Spanish history corresponding to the last decades of the 15th and the first decades of the 16th century – has left a rich musical legacy. An essential part of it is the vast repertoire of Spanish secular art song written to amatory, political propaganda, philosophical or devotional texts. Most of this repertoire was written down the manuscript widely known as Cancionero Musical de Palacio (now in the Royal Library in Madrid) which ‘towers above every other secular monument of Spanish Renaissance musical history’ (Robert Stevenson).

Madly beautiful music, which – according to the contemporary witness – was once ‘all the rage’ among members of the aristocratic society of the Early Renaissance Spain.

LA MORRA: Arianna Savall (voice & harp), Petter Johansen (voice, fiddle & drum), Corina Marti (recorders & clavisimbalum), Michal Gondko (lute, gittern, vihuela de mano & drum), Tore Eketorp (vihuela de arco)

ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Corina Marti & Michal Gondko

With introductory essays by David Fallows and Michal Gondko

REVIEWS

  • Vortrefflich. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) [read the whole review]
  • So einfach, wie genial… ungemein intensiv… Die sparsame Instrumentalbesetzung zeigt die ganze Kunstfertigkeit der Musiker. Ihre Humilitas der Musik gegenüber ist der eigentliche Triumph… Das ist eine ungeheuer intensive und wunderschöne Interpretation geworden, was man von diesem exzellenten Ensemble auch erwarten konnte und durfte. Mehr davon! (Toccata)
  • Kreativ wie dezent. (kulturradio.de)
  • Eine hervorragende Aufnahme. (mdr.de)
  • Un florilège dense et contrasté, débordant de vie, de naturel et de séduction. (lalibre.be) [read the full review]
  • Een waardevolle aanwinst voor de renaissancediscografie. (www.klassiekezaken.nl)

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