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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Feliz NavidadMediterranean Christmas Music from the Renaissance
Cécile Kempenaers (soprano) & José Pizarro (tenor) Capella de la Torre, Katherina Bäuml Christmas did not have the same importance in the official ecclesiastical calendar of the Catholic Church in previous centuries as it has today. This CD represents the characteristic of Spanish Christmas songs of the Renaissance, Polyphonic melodies known as “peasant songs” which were predominant in musical manuscripts of the period. Although many of the compositions are by the well known composer ‘Anon’, most were popular tunes of their day. Handel even used one of these carols, Quando nascette nino in the Messiah (1742) in the aria He shall feed his flock. “Renaissance Spain's 'popular', non-liturgical celebration of Christmas was a distinctly jolly business, if this perky, toe-tapping CD is anything to go by. There is tenderness, too, amid the general buoyancy…” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Love and ReconquestMusic from Renaissance Spain
Frances Cooper (soprano), Jo Hugh-Jones (bass and recorders), Gordon Ferries (vihuela and Renaissance guitar), Marcus Claridge (percussion) Scottish early music ensemble Fires of Love serve up a feast of songs and ballads from the Spanish Renaissance and early Baroque, with a freshness critic Norman Lebrecht calls simply ‘beautiful’. Repertoire includes works by Luys de Narváez, Miguel de Fuenllana, Luis Milán, Alonso Mudarra and Juan del Encina. "... full of vitality and will soon have your foot tapping... delightfully sung." - Early Music News, April 2002 “another well-produced disc from the Edinburgh-based company Delphian…reaching those parts of the repertoire many of the bigger boys fail to reach’” The Scotsman | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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