Visions and Miracles

Visions and Miracles - Gallician and Latin sacred songs from 13th-century Spain

Ensemble Alcatraz
Nonesuch 7 9180-1 [LP]
Nonesuch 7 9180-2 [CD]
Nonesuch 7 9180-4 [Cassette]

Contents:

Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS: Cantigas de Santa Maria

1. Cantiga 103: Quen a Virgen ben servirà a Parayso irá

Anon., 13th-14th c., Las Huelgas codex:

2. Conductus: Fontis in rivulum (instr.)

Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS: Cantigas de Santa Maria

3. Cantiga 333: Connosçudamente mostre miragres

Ensemble Alcatraz (arr.) Cantigas de Santa Maria

4. Melodies from Cantigas: Alavanca de Mudanza

Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS: Cantigas de Santa Maria

5. Cantiga 117: Toda cousa que an Virgen
6. Cantiga 34: Gran dereit'

Anon., 13th-14th c., Las Huelgas codex:

7. Sequence: Ad honorem salvatoris

Alfonso el Sabio (attr.), Escurial MS: Cantigas de Santa Maria

8. Cantiga 42: A Virgen mui grorïosa

Playing time: 54' 06"

Performers: Ensemble Alcatraz [Susan Rode Morris (soprano), Cheryl Ann Fulton (medieval harp), Kit Higginson (recorders, psaltery), Shira Kammen (vielle, rebec, lyre), Peter Maund (percussion)] & Anne Hodgkinson (soprano), Ellen McDonald (soprano), Lawrence Ohran (baritone), Mitchell Sandler (baritone).

Recording site and date:
Lane Mountain Chapel, CA, USA [1988 or prior]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 12/3-319 (january/february 1989)

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