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Release Date: 25-02-1995
Label: Erdenklang Musik
Catalog Number: EK50792
Barcode: 723091507929
Musical Style: Medieval
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Si habrá en este baldrés  | 11 | Por unos puertos arriba |
| 2 | Pues que jamás olvidaros | 12 | Amor con fortuna |
| 3 | Caldero y llave madona | 13 | Gasajémonos de huzia |
| 4 | Recercada primera | 14 | Para verme con ventura |
| 5 | Vuestros amores he señora | 15 | Congoxa más que cruel |
| 6 | Ninguno cierre las puertas | 16 | Recercada primera |
| 7 | Qu'es de ti desconsolado | 17 | No tienen vado mis males |
| 8 | Levanta Pascual levanta | 18 | Todos los bienes del mundo |
| 9 | Señora de hermosura | 19 | Hoy comamos y bevamos |
| 10 | Recercada segunda | ||
Description:
The personal union of the kingdoms Aragon and Castilia in 1474, the conquest of Granada in 1492 and the discovery of the New World in the same year inaugurated a new era of Spanish politics, Spanish culture and, in turn, of Spanish music. This so-called 'Golden Age', 'siglo d'oro', - after the 'cleansing' of the Iberian peninsula of Muslims and Jews - promoted a specific, nationally oriented form of the arts. The aggressive Spanish domestic and foreign policies - inquistion, expulsion of undesired ethnic and religious minorities - is the historical background which gives this music and this CD a most interesting point of view as far as our daily political situatin is concerned. Above all Juan del Encina was the most important Spanish musician, composer, author and actor of that period. Hardly influenced by the musical customs prevalent in other European countries, these artists created songs and instrumental pieces which impress even the modern audience with their extraordinary freshness and spontaneity. They are frequently adaptions of simple folk melodies. Encina did not leave us a single truly religious or liturgical piece of music, however, numerous emotional songs: his own expressive, roguish or erotic texts set to music.
Biography:
Hortus Musicus, the 'Music Garden”, was founded in 1972 by Andres Mustonen with his first concert in Tallinn, Estonia. The musicians are considered to be the most highly individual and most sprightly interpreters of 'ancient music”, i.e., artistic European music from its beginning to the masters of the Fate Renaissance and the Baroque. Their vitality and their enthusiasm does not allow boring erudition to arise. It is reputed to decipher the applicable time period as a whole, to make music precise and homogeneous, in the authentic style, but not at the expense of the zest and with precisely the amount of personal freedom for their creative talents, for improvising and for extraordinary interpretation, It is exactly this non-academic composure that makes them so popular and that also makes the hearts of many ancient music ultra-purists involuntarily beat faster.
