1492 - A Portrait in Music

1492 - A Portrait in Music
The Waverly Consort - Michael Jaffee
University of Oklahoma (no number) [VHS]

Contents:

This beautifully filmed documentary program "shows the historic drama of this era as see through the eyes of Christopher Columbus, with a personal account by his son Ferdinand, his first biographer." The musical "soundtrack was recorded digitally to capture the authentic performance styles and suble timbres of the early instruments." The selections featured, interwoven into the narrative, are:

  1. Viva el gran Rey Don Fernando (Carlo Verardi)
  2. Una sañosa porfía (Juan del Encina)
  3. Tres moricas m'enamoran (Diego Fernandez)
  4. El paso del Mar Rojo (sephardic)
  5. Ah, el novio no quere dinero! (sephardic)
  6. En memoria d'Alixandre (Juan de Anchieta)
  7. Nunca fue pena mayor (Johannes Urrede)
  8. Ayo visto lo mappamundi (Anon., Italy)
  9. Missa Ayo visto lo mappamundi (Johannes Cornago)
  10. Ay, Santa Maria (Anon., Spain)
  11. Salve regina (Anon., Spain)
  12. Ave virgo sanctissima (Francisco Guerrero)
  13. Pase el agoa (Anon. villancico, Spain)
  14. Oy comamos y bebamos (Encina)

Playing time: 58' 00"

Performers:
The Waverly Consort - Michael Jaffee
Tamara Crout (soprano), Rita Lilly (soprano), Larry Lipnik (countertenor, tenor viol, recorder), John Shankweiler (tenor), John Olund (tenor, claves), Joel Fredericksen (bass, lute), Kay Jaffee (recorders, harp, gemshorn, organetto, dumbek), Michael Jaffee (citole, vihuela, hurdy-gurdy, saz, drum), Rosamund Morley (viols, vielle, kemence), Tom Zajac (sackbut, shawm, recorders, flutes, panpipes, cornamuse, hurdy-gurdy)
Assisted by: Michael Hinton (percussion), George Mgrdichian (oud), Steven Lundahl (sackbut)
Pat Dillehay & Miguel Terekhov (readers)

Recording site and date:
Filmed on location at various historical sites in Spain [1992 or prior];
Rel. 1992

Comments:
Produced and directed by Eugene Enrico. Funded in part by the Spain '92 Foundation, Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S.-Spanish Joint Committee for Cultural and Educational Cooperation, State Arts Council of Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma Foundation.
Information from owned VHS.
This ensemble also released a CD version on the same theme that year, with almost identical content: 1492 - Music from the Age of Discovery.

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Jorge Salazar