Folias & Canarios

Folias & Canarios
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée (Auvidis) E 8516 [CD]
Astrée (Naïve) "Musica Iberica" ES 9974 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Cabezón: Folias - Pavana con su glosa (ensemble)
  2. Mudarra: Fantasia (harp)
  3. Cabanilles: Tiento de falsas (viols)
  4. Sanz: Jàcaras (guitar)
  5. Sanz: Canarios (guitar)
  6. Anon: Paduana del Re (ensemble)
  7. Anon: Saltarello (ensemble)
  8. Kapsberger: Arpegiatta (theorbo)
  9. Gorzanis: Gallarda (viols, vihuela)
  10. Kapsberger: Canarios (theorbo)
  11. Ponç d'Ortafà: Si ay perdut mon saber (ensemble)
  12. Anon: La Mariagneta (ensemble)
  13. Anon: Con que la lavaré (viols, harp)
  14. Anon: El pare i la mare (ensemble)
  15. Ribadayaz: Paradetas (harp)
  16. Sanz: Clarines y Trompetas (guitar)
  17. Cabanilles: Fantasia (viols)
  18. Piccinini: Toccata & Chiaccona (theorbo)
  19. Arrauxo: Todo el mundo en general (viols)
  20. Anon: Canarios (viols)

Playing time: 56' 37"

Performers:
Hespèrion XX:
Jordi Savall (soprano viol, bass viol), Andrew Lawrence King (harp), Rolf Lislevand (guitar, theorbo), Sergi Casademunt (viol), Eunice Brandao (viol), Laurence Bonnal (viol), Lorenz Duftschmid (violone)

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona, Catalunya, Spain [01/1993];
Rel.: 01/18/1994, 04/24/2002.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 406-148 (07-08/1994), 494-118 (july/august 2002) - Diapason d'Or
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

This is an imaginative instrumental ensemble realization of many tunes & dances current in Spain throughout the era. Composers represented are Antonio de Cabezón, Alonso Mudarra, Joan Cabanilles (1644-1712), Gaspar Sanz (1647-1716), Girolamo Kapsberger, Giacomo de Gorzanis (c.1520-1579), Ponç d'Ortafà (fl.c.1250), Lucas Ruiz de Ribadayaz, Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638), and Francisco Correa de Arauxo.

A later, similar program devoted entirely to Cabanilles:

Cabanilles: Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox 9801

A recording devoted to Luis Milan (c.1500-c.1561), also in instrumental ensemble arrangement:

Lluís del Milà: Fantasies, Pavanes & Gallardes
Jordi Savall, Andrew Lawrence-King, et al.
Astrée 8535

Finally, similar programs by other ensembles:

Doulce Memorie
Hille Perl / Andrew Lawrence King / Lee Santana / Robert Sagasser
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77502
Spanish Music of the Golden Age
Doval / Extempore String Ensemble - George Weigand
Hyperion 66327
The Pleasures of Cervantes
Ensemble polyphonique de Barcelone - M. Q. Gavalda
Nonesuch 71116 (LP)

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