Cantigas de Sevilla

Cantigas de Sevilla - Cantigas of Seville
Alfonso X el Sabio 1221-1284
Música Antigua - Eduardo Paniagua, dir.
Sony Classical "Hispánica" S2K 62859 [CDx2]
Pneuma « Colección Cantigas » PN2-590 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD-1: Reino de Sevilla en tiempo de Moros - The Kingdom of Seville during the time of the Moors

    Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa María
  1. CSM 47: Ajedrez "Virgen Santa María" (instr.)
  2. CSM 227: Escudero cautivo "Quen os peccadores guia"
  3. CSM 344: Las cabalgadas "Os que a Santa María saben fazer reverença"
  4. CSM 323: Niñno de Coria "Ontre toda-las vertudes que aa Virgen son dadas" (instr.)
  5. CSM 348: El tesoro "Ben parte Santa María"
  6. CSM 379 (not 378 as stated): Los Corsarios "A que defende do demo"
  7. CSM 99: Pueblo de Moros "Muito sse deven teer" (instr.)
  8. CSM 325: Cautiva de Tánger "Con dereit' a Virgen santa"

    9. CD-2: La Corte de Alfonso X en Sevilla - The Court of Alfonso X in Seville

  9. CSM 388 (=295): Visión del Rey "Que por al non devess' om' a Santa María servir"
  10. CSM 257: Las reliquias "Ben guarda Santa María"
  11. CSM 292: Le anillo del rey don Fernando "Muito demostra a Virgen"
  12. CSM 188: Corazón de la doncella "Coraçon d' om' ou de moller que a Virgen muit' amar" (instr.)
  13. CSM 376: El anillo de don Manuel "A Virgen, cuja merçee é pelo mundo sabuda"
  14. CSM 354: La bestiola "Eno pouco e no muito. En todo lles faz mercee"
  15. CSM 349 (=387): La imagen hermosa "Muito praz aa Virgen santa"
  16. CSM 386: El pescado "A que avondou do vinno"
  17. CSM 324: Virgin de la Sede "A Sennor que mui ben soube"

Playing time: 65' 45" + 65' 03" = 2h 10' 48"

Performers:
Música Antigua
Paula Vega (soprano & choir), Luis Vincent (counter-tenor, canno (square psaltery), handbells, cowbells, rattles, water sistrum, tar), Cesar Carazo (tenor, fiddle, handclapping), Wafir Sheik (arab lute, darbuga, finger cymbals), Jaime Muñoz (axabeba tuned to C, G and F, kaval, reed cross-flute with buzzer, fistula (small three-holed flute with tabor), chorus (dulcimer), tejoletas, handbells and cymbals), Luis Delgado (andaluisi lute, guimbri, citole, vihuela de peñola, santur, hurdy gurdy, triangular viola, viola with keys, darbuga, bendir, square tambourine, timbrel, tambourine, tar, cántara), Eduardo Paniagua (psaltery, zither, fahl (metal Arab flute), tenor recorder, sopranino recorder, darbuga, t'bila, timbrel, tambourine, tar, bendir, cymbals, hammer, handclapping)
Eduardo Paniagua, dir.

Recording site and date:
Monastery of Santa Espina, Valladolid, Spain [06/1996];
Rel.: 1998

Excerpts:
[1]-[4], [7], [9]-[10], [12]-[14], [17] Sony Classical "Hispánica" S2K 60 580 [CDx2] Obras Maestras de las Cantigas - Masterpieces of the Cantigas
[6] Pneuma PN-800 [CD] Puentes sobre el Mediterráneo: Dialogo musical de las culturas medievales del Mediterráneo
[10] Pneuma PN-600 [CD] Lo mejor de las Cantigas - The best of the Cantigas of Holy Mary. Pneuma Colección: Cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabio, 1221-1284.

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 30/1-42 (September/october 2006)
Goldberg (y/#-p.): 1997/1-51, 2004/28-85

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