Jerusalem Y Stella, I.: Te Deum / Gorgeos Trinando / Rompa L
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Baroque Mexico 2
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Urtext
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AYAGUNA
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AYAGUNA
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OTA RECORDS
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VAMPISOUL
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VAMPISOUL
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French And Spanish Organ Music
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French And Spanish Organ Music
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Jan 01, 1986
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Guitar Music - Milan, L. / Mudarra, A. / Narvaez, L. / Sanz,
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Delos
Jan 01, 2005
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Música Andalusí / Ibn Baya Ensemble
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Track Listing 1. Bugya 2. Mizan Qa'im Wa-nisk 3. Twisya No. 3 Of The Nuba 4. Mizan D-dary 5. Mawwal Al-Istihlal 6. Mawwal On Tab' Al-Hiyaz Al-Kabir 7. Mawwal On Tab' Raml Al-Maya
Ibn Baya Ensemble: Eduardo Paniagua, Luis Delgado, Gloria Lergo, Mohamed El Arabi Serghimi, Omar Metioui.
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Jul 10, 2008
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Ay Luna / Guillemette Laurens, Unda Maris
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In Spain's Golden Century, sacred and secular repertoire drew their inspiration from a unique popular source. Guilemette Laurens highlights the diversity of a contrasted language full of colours and moods, bright or serious, bitter or flamboyant, and constantly illustrating the profundity so characteristic of Spain.
Ay Luna / Guillemette Laurens, Unda Maris
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Sep 01, 2007
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The Secrets of Andalusia
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We know that key influences on Flamenco date back to Islamic Iberia or the Al-Andalusian era of Spain between the 8th-15th centuries. Yet the first mention of Flamenco by name is not until 1774, where it appears in an epistolary novel, Cartas Marruecas, by the playwright and soldier, Jose de Cadalso y Vazquez. In collaboration on with soprano Victoria Couper, kanun player, Konstantin nos Glynos, and oud/Flamenco guitarist, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, this album seeks to explore this question by tracing the influences on Flamenco through Arabic music alongside Sephardic song and the Spanish composers of the late-16th to 18th centuries. What happened in these intervening centuries?
The Secrets of Andalusia
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First Hand Records
Jan 24, 2025
FHR157
Masters of the Guitar, Vol. 2: Spain
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This release continues the IDIS tradition of remastering and rediscovering the most important performers of the Legendary Guitar Spanish School. This collection has very rare tracks coming directly from private collectors' discographies.
Gabriel Martinez-Gros est professeur emerite d'histoire medievale de l'Islam à l'universite de Nanterre, specialiste de l'ideologie omeyyade et grand connaisseur de la pensee d'Ibn Khaldûn. L'historien nous presente une histoire d'Al- Andalus, c'est-à-dire de l'Espagne conquise par les troupes musulmanes au VIIIe siecle, durant les conquetes arabes, puis dirigee par les califes omeyyades de Cordoue jusqu'au XIe siecle. La guerre civile, fitna en arabe, entre les emirs andalous, et la poussee chretienne de la Reconquista, vont progressivement mettre fin à la presence musulmane en Espagne. Gabriel Martinez-Gros livre un recit marque par le souci de restituer les ideologies des differents acteurs comprises dans un contexte economique, politique intellectuel et social brillamment retrace. Cette histoire d'Al Andalus, nous rappelle l'historien, est l'objet d'un debat historiographique don't il trace les contours. C'est aussi un enjeu pour la societe espagnole contemporaine qui renouvelle son regard sur son passe. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX. Gabriel Martinez-Gros is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University of Nanterre, a specialist in Umayyad ideology and a great connoisseur of the thought of Ibn Khaldûn. The historian presents a history of Al-Andalus, i.e. Spain conquered by Muslim troops in the 8th century, during the Arab conquests, and then ruled by the Umayyad caliphs of Cordoba until the 11th century. The civil war (fitna in Arabic) between the Andalusian emirs and the Christian thrust of the Reconquista gradually brought an end to the Muslim presence in Spain. Gabriel Martinez-Gros delivers an account marked by a concern for restoring the ideologies of the various players included in a brilliantly traced economic, political, intellectual and social context. The historian reminds us that this history of Al Andalus is the subject of a historiographical debate, the contours of which he outlines. It is also a challenge for contemporary Spanish society, which is renewing it's view of it's past. Audiobook, in French.
Although biographical details of his life remain sketchy, Luys Milán’s Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro is certainly the oldest surviving printed collection of vihuela music. Tuned like the contemporary Renaissance lute, the Spanish vihuela is a guitar-shaped instrument and for it Milán wrote a series of compelling works including fantasias and pavans that maturely fused improvisatory and polyphonic elements. This recording presents all the solo vihuela pieces from the first book of El Maestro in the order in which they appear.
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Naxos
Jul 10, 2015
8573305
Gutierrez: Three Seasons of the Andes - Kimsa Pachanaka / Los Ruphay
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Carrying Los Ruphay’s ambition to develop awareness and appreciation for the rich tapestry of Bolivian heritage, this album highlights the three seasons of the Aymara annual cycle and the impacts that climate change is having on their culture today. An uplifting album conveying the wind and grandeur of the high plateaus of the Andes through the entrancing melodies of panpipes, charangos and other traditional instruments. A tribute to Los Ruphay’s founder Mario P. Gutiérrez.
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Nov 10, 2023
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La Muse Oubliee II
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Pianist Antonio Oyarzabal continues to show us in this album that a multitude of female composers, who deserve to be known and recognized, still remain forgotten. On this occasion, he offers us a selection of pieces by 18 unique authors, most of them pianists, from different periods and geographical origins. In all cases, their professional development was hindered by their status as women and by the social pressure of the historical period in which they lived. Oyarzabal finds intense and authentic artistic stimulation in the process of researching their career paths and in the enthusiastic interpretation of their music. This second part of “La Muse Oubliée” does not intend to bring any sort of closure. On the contrary, it represents the continuation of a project as large as the number of female composers who have yet to be included…
La Muse Oubliee II
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IBS Classical
May 03, 2024
IBS-32024
Invocaciones / Duo Mexicano con Brio
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INVOCACIONES: Mexican Music for Flute and Piano • Evangelina Reyes (fl); Camelia Goila (pn) • URTEXT DIGITAL JBCC-188 (67:27)
ZYMAN Sonata for Flute and Piano. LAVISTA Dance of Degas’s Ballerinas. CORAL Not So Short Sonata for Flute and Piano. ARMENGOL Divertimento. ARANDA Mnemósine. Cadenza. LUNA Six Fantasies for Flute and Piano. E. TOUSSAINT Bop Study No.1 for Flute Solo
This is another one of those collections of miscellany that is so easily overlooked or dismissed—I would probably pass over it myself if I were just a reader of this magazine. But this recording offers fine performances of an extremely appealing recital program, with a repertoire that ranges from the truly superb to the merely pleasant. I will discuss the program in my own judgment of descending order of interest.
The most fully satisfying work is the 17-minute sonata by the Mexican-American composer Samuel Zyman, now in his late-50s, and a member of the Juilliard faculty for quite a few years. From my personal vantage point, Zyman’s music seems to have drawn little serious attention, but of nearly a dozen of his works that I’ve encountered over the years I haven’t heard one that failed to exhibit an irresistible sense of compelling creative urgency, vividly and expertly articulated within a general language of traditional modern neoclassicism. But unlike the neoclassical norm, often characterized by a cool detachment and lack of emotional commitment, Zyman’s music is always serious and expressive in tone, with a driving contrapuntal energy. I cannot imagine a flutist who wouldn’t relish a work like this, which grabs the listener intensely from the first moment and never lets go. The piece it most resembles is the perennially popular Sonata for Flute and Piano by the late Robert Muczynski, but Zyman’s 1993 sonata is somewhat more driven and edgy.
Also of considerable interest and appeal is the Dance of Degas’s Ballerinas, composed in 1992 by Mario Lavista. Born in 1943, Lavista seems to have the most cosmopolitan academic pedigree of the composers represented, having studied with a range of mentors from Nadia Boulanger and György Ligeti to Karlheinz Stockhausen. But the short piece that we hear here is a consistently absorbing abstract work in a modern traditionalist style. Some listeners may find their imaginations stimulated by the title, but I heard no convincing musical connection to the suggested images, yet had no problem connecting with the piece as pure music.
Leonardo Coral, born in 1962, is a prolific composer whose music has been performed widely throughout Mexico. His four-movement piece, whose title may be translated as Not So Short Sonata for Flute and Piano, dates from 2003. It is a pleasant piece with an occasional reminiscence of Poulenc—pretty, straightforward, but with no plumbing of expressive depths. Mario Ruiz Armengol (1914-2002) was a versatile figure in Mexican music, celebrated in the classical, light classical, and popular fields. His Divertimento in G (1979) for alto flute and piano is a gracious, warmly lyrical piece. Alexis Aranda, not yet 40 and the youngest composer represented here, has been hailed as a major talent within the Mexican music establishment. A student of Mario Lavista, noted above, he is represented here by two very short pieces. The first, Mnemósine, refers to the goddess of memory. Dating from 2002, it begins with striking dissonance, but quickly warms up to an appealingly tonal lyricism. The earlier Cadenza for unaccompanied flute is a rather late addition to a genre overflowing with mediocre pieces.
Armando Luna (b. 1964) received his graduate training under Leonardo Balada at Carnegie Mellon University, while his career has flourished actively in his native Mexico. The program notes accompanying his Six Fantasies of 1992 make all sorts of intriguingly colorful references, but the actual music does not bear them out and is rather ordinary if pleasant enough. Like many of the composers represented on this recital, Eugenio Toussaint (1954-2011) was active in Mexico’s popular, jazz, and classical worlds. His Bop Study No. 1 (1994) was originally written for recorder, but Evangelina Reyes transcribed it for flute. As it stands, the short piece exploits a wide range of flute effects, both familiar and unconventional, many of them suggestive of “bop”-style jazz. All the pieces are performed expertly by both Reyes and her accompanist Camelia Goila.
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Invocaciones / Duo Mexicano con Brio
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Urtext
Apr 27, 2010
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Dedication II / Moises P. Sánchez
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Feb 23, 2024
His new album "Dedication II" is an expansive affair (nine long songs provide a playing time of 73 minutes) and covers a lot of musical landscapes. Chick Corea once said that he made music to make people happy, and Moises P. Sanchez can certainly concur with this viewpoint. And "Dedication II" – the first "Dedication" album was released with the same line-up – is a bit reminiscent of the music of Chick Corea, who was open to the most diverse influences.
Dedication II / Moises P. Sánchez
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Double Moon Records
Feb 23, 2024
DMCHR71445
Platero y Yo - An Andalusian Fantasy
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 36-year collaboration with the legendary guitarist Andres Segovia resulted in 35 works featuring the guitar, including three concertos, several large cycles and numerous shorter pieces. Castelnuovo-Tedesco first met Segovia at a festival in Venice in 1932 and composed a new work for the legendary guitarist almost every year afterwards. Among the towering masterpieces in guitar literature is Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y Yo (Platero and I), a cycle of consisting of 28 settings, arranged into four groups of seven-movement suites with a total playing time of 1 hour and 49 minutes. Originally conceived as an accompaniment for a recitation of selections from the Nobel Prize-winning Catalan poet Juan Ramon Jimenez's collection of poetic sketches of the same name, the composer gave his permission for the work to be performed without spoken text, which is how it is performed here. You can read Jimenez's texts in English translation while listening to the music and enjoying the wonderful illustrations for each movement by the award-winning artist Halfdan Pisket, especially commissioned for this recording. In preparation for bringing this masterwork to life, internationally acclaimed, multi prize-winning Danish guitarist Niklas Johansen not only studies the Spanish language to appreciate Jimenez'sprose-poems in their native language, but travelled to Spain, not far from Jimenez's hometown of Moguer. The close relationship with the language and culture has lent Johansen's interpretations a personal resonance. This album was recorded in Fredensborg Palace Chapel by the Danish masters of sound, Preben Iwan and Mette Due who beautifully captured the exceptional acoustics. We wish to express our sincere thanks to His Majesty King Frederik X, who personally granted us permission to record in Fredensborg Palace Chapel.
Sephardic music, from the ancient domain of al-Andalus, lies at the heart of of this selection of songs in remembrance of a lost homeland. The word endechar comes from a time before the expulsion of the Jews and their culture from Spain in 1492; wit.
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Jun 29, 2010
8572443
Spain: Cante Flamenco / de Utrera
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Fernanda Jiménez Peña (1923-2006) was born in 1923 in Utrera, one of the towns located in the main cantaora region. Hailed as one of the greatest cantaoras of the last decades, Fernanda accompanies her voice of echoing sobs with gesticulation and superhuman concentration. Silence, panting, and gestures of impotence and agony transform her more inspired concerts into magnificent, liberating events laden with tragic pathos. Bernarda Jiménez Peña (1927-2009), Fernanda’s sister, is a cantaora specialised in the bulerías, which she performs with incomparable mastery. Although the bulerías have been considered as a minor form of cante, they are extremely difficult to execute due to their pulsating rhythm and the exactitude of their compás. Bernarda’s bulerías convey infinitely complex psychological states and adapt to a wide variety of melodic lines, to create a personal, disorderly and expansive mood, further enhanced through her sense of intimacy and ability to move listeners.
Spain: Cante Flamenco / de Utrera
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Ocora Radio-France
Jun 25, 2021
C 581642/43
The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 2
Naxos
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Aug 28, 2012
Named after an eminent scribe at the court in Madrid, the Guerra Manuscript contains over one hundred secular songs from the second half of the seventeenth century. The anthology is a valuable repository of music from anonymous sources but also from Spain's very finest Baroque composers, such as Juan Hidalgo and Jose Marin. These expressive songs, largely on poetic and mythological themes, are performed by some of the world's leading interpreters of the genre, whose first volume in this series [8.570135] received great acclaim. The tenor Juan Sancho has collaborated with conductors including William Christie, Gustav Leonhardt, Jordi Savall, Andrea Marcon, Fabio Biondi, Allan Curtis, Richard Egarr and Diego Fasolis. Founded and directed by the Galician harpist Manuel Vilas, the Ars Atlantica ensemble is focused on Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 2
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Naxos
Aug 28, 2012
8572876
YUTAJE, VENEZUELA: LOST WORLD
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Apr 01, 2010
“In this CD of more than 66 minutes, David Rosane takes the listener to the fascinating forests of Yutaje, in the South of Vene zuela. Here are natural atmospheres, recorded in stereo, at sunrise, during the heat of the day, at sunset or during the night, throughout the different Amazonian habitats: forests, secondary undergrowth, clearings, river-side canopy forest, etc. In this sort of “lost world”, the listener will even hear the breathing of the Boto, a South American river dolphin…”
16 natural soundscapes in Yutaje (Venezuela)
YUTAJE, VENEZUELA: LOST WORLD
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Frémeaux
Apr 01, 2010
FA687
La Muse Oubliée / Antonio Oyarzabal
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Apr 16, 2021
Pianist Antonio Oyarzabal takes us on a journey through the work of thirteen different female composers, most of them pianists. Their pieces have been a real source of motivation and inspiration for him. Here he pays tribute to the names and work of these women, unfairly and sadly neglected, in the shadow of compositions written by men. It is a musical journey that takes us on different paths: from Jacquet de la Guerre’s French Baroque style to the avant garde proposals of Ruth Crawford Seeger in the beginning of the XXth century; from Lili Boulanger’s languor to Germaine Tailleferre’s constant joviality; or from the more popular Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn to the almost completely unknown Mana Zucca or Lucija Garuta. All of this is expressed by the extraordinary sensitivity of a performer who, through long and intense research, has dived deep into the life and historical context of these thirteen unique artistic voices, in order to provide them with the relevance they deserve.
La Muse Oubliée / Antonio Oyarzabal
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IBS Classical
Apr 16, 2021
IBS-52021
The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 4: 17th Century Secular Spanish Vocal Musc / Vilas, Ars Atlantica
Naxos
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Jan 13, 2017
The Guerra Manuscript, named after its copyist José Miguel de Guerra y Villegas, is a repository of one hundred of the greatest secular songs (tonos humanos) circulating in the Madrid court of seventeenth-century Spain. The songs were composed by the leading figures of the Spanish Baroque and include many by the most prestigious of all, José Marín and Juan Hidalgo. Ideally accompanied by one of the principal Spanish baroque instruments, the arpa de dos órdenes (double harp), they explore ideas of love, praise, and beauty. This volume includes perhaps the best-known song of all, Corazón que en prisión.
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Naxos
Jan 13, 2017
8573678
HASSE: SERPENTES IGNEI IN DESERTO
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Six virtuoso vocal soloists and the instrumentalists of Les Accents rise to the dramatic and expressive challenges of Serpentes ignei in deserto - 'Fiery Serpents in the Desert' - a biblical oratorio by Johann Adolf Hasse. As the conductor and violinist Thibault Noally explains: "Hasse was probably one of the most famous composers of his time - as famous as Handel, or even more famous than Handel in some countries." Born near Hamburg in 1699, Hasse studied in Italy and was active in such musical centers as Naples, Vienna, Dresden and Venice, where he composed Serpentes ignei in deserto. The central role of Moses is taken by countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, who is joined by soprano Julia Lezhneva as an Angel, sopranist Bruno de Sa, and three further star countertenors - Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Carlo Vistoli and David Hansen. "The score is demanding for all the singers," continues Thibault Noally. "Every character is very different from the others and each of our soloists has a unique personality and a unique vocal timbre. The result is a huge variety of temperaments and colors."
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