Performers:
Grupo de Música Antigua
Paula Vega (soprano, coro), Luis Vincent (countertenor, coro),
Cesar Carazo (tenor, coro, viola de brazo), Wafir Sheik (laúd
arab), Luis Delgado (zanfona, vihuela de peñola, dotar
(laúd de 2 cuerdas), santur, tromba marina, pandero cuadrado,
bendir, tambor charro), Eduardo Paniagua (psalterio, flautas a
bisel, nay, fahl (flauta árabe metálica), chirimia,
cromorno, darbuga, tar, pandero, campanas, platillos, cimbalos,
sonajas, cascabeles, ajorcas)
with Mariano Alises (tenor en coros)
Eduardo Paniagua, dir.
Playing time: 59' 20"
Recording site and date:
Studio "El Cometa", Torrelodones, Spain [06, 09/1994];
Rel.: 1994 (Pneuma CD), 1995 (Sony), 2001 (Pneuma PN)
Compilation
Pneuma PN-730 [CDx4] Santa María,
estrela del día
Excerpts:
[1], [3]-[5] Pneuma PN-470 [CD] El crisol
del tiempo
[3], [4], [6]-[7] Sony Classical «
Hispánica » S2K 60 580 [CDx2] Obras Maestras de
las Cantigas
[7] Pneuma PN-600 [CD] Lo mejor de las
Cantigas
Reviewed in:
Goldberg (y/#-p.): 1997/1-51; 2001/14-58
Comments:
Information from CD and new Pneuna website. Names of instruments
/ voices are as they appear in the CD booklet.
The release of (1) "Cantigas de Toledo" and (2)
"Cantigas of Castilla y León",
marked the beginning of the record label Pneuma's project to record
all the cantigas (songs) of Alfonso X, the Wise. These CDs were
later released in Sony Classical's Hispánica collection
together with
(3) "Remedios Curativos",
(4) "La Vida de María" (2CDs),
(5) "Cantigas de Sevilla" (2CDs),
(6) "Caballeros",
(7) "Cantigas de Jeréz",
(8) "Cantigas de Italia",
(9) "Cantigas de Francia" and
"Obras Maestras de las Cantigas"
(Excerpts – 2CDs). PNEUMA now resumes the original project,
and the series recorded by Eduardo Paniagua continues:
(10) "Cantigas de Castilla – La
Mancha"
(11) "Cantigas de Santa María del Puerto
– I"
(12) "Virgen de Atocha – Cantigas de
Madrid"
(13) "Bestiario"
(14) "Cantigas de Flauta y Tamboral"
(15) "Cantigas de Extremadura"
(16) "El Camino de Santiago"
(17) "Viola de ruedas"
(18) "Merlín y otras Cantigas
(celtas)"
(19) "Cantigas de Valencia"
(20) "Cantigas de Bizancio"
(2CDs)
(21) "Cantigas de Catalunya"
(22) "Cantigas de Inglaterra"
(23) "Cantigas de Burgos"
(24) "Cantigas de Alemania"
for a total of 24 original releases (as of march 2009);
also excerpts from above:
"Lo mejor de las Cantigas"
"Rosas das Rosas"
"Llena de Gracia"
and compilation from above:
"Santa María, estrela del
día" (4CDs)
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Pierre-F. Roberge