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ALFONSO X (El Sabio): Music of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 - Las Cantigas de Santa Maria

Lyrichord Early Music
ALFONSO X (El Sabio): Music of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 - Las Cantigas de Santa Maria

Composer(s):Alfonso X (El Sabio),
Artist(s) Oberlin, Russell, counter-tenor • Iadone, Joseph, lute
Period(s) Medieval
Genre Classical Music
Category Vocal • Vocal Ensemble
Catalogue LEMS8003
Label Lyrichord Early Music
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



Review from The National Review
Review By LD87380,February 2010

"In the thirteenth century Alfonso the Wise brought together the greatest in Christian, Mozarabic, Jewish, and Arab culture and art -- and this is evident in the structure and cadence of the Marian celebratory anthology he compiled. These Marian songs are not in Alfonso's Castilian tongue, but in the Galician, which is more closely allied to Latin. These songs, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, of simple purity and complex beauty, have been issued by Lyrichord, a recording company to which those of us who draw sustenance from earlier musical sources owe much ... these, sung by that remarkable countertenor Russell Oberlin, with lute accompaniment of Joseph Iadone, surpass them [other American recordings of the Cantigas]. The universality of music in the Middle Ages can also be discovered in more....






 

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