Iberian Triangle
La Romanesca presents a portrait of the musical diversity of Spanish song in the years just before the great expulsion and Columbus's voyages: music of Christian, Moorish and Jewish Spain before 1492.
Hartley Newnham countertenor, percussion
Ruth Wilkinson vielle, recorder, voice
Ros Bandt recorder, flute, psaltery, percussion, voice
John Griffiths lute, vihuela, percussion
Esteban Valdivieso composer
Francisco de la Torre composer
Miguel de Fuenllana arranger
Imagine Spain's most glorious, powerful and corrupt era. La Romanesca has built a portrait of Spanish song before 1492: Sephardic songs, the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa María, Mozarabic jarchas, and music from the Christian courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Hartley Newnham, Ruth Wilkinson, Ros Bandt and John Griffiths bring countertenor, vielle, recorders, lute and vihuela to this historically enlightening programme.
Reviews
... fearless virtuosity.
Artist
La Romanesca
A leading force in early music in Australia since 1978, La Romanesca has developed a special interest in the performance of mediaeval monophonic and polyphonic song, although the group's repertory spans the twelfth to seventeenth centuries.
Audio previews
Tracks
- Por allí pasó un cavallero (Traditional) 2:59
- El Rey de Francia (Traditional) 7:18
- Moriscos, los mis moriscos (Traditional) 3:22
- El Polo (Traditional) 4:50
- Mui gran dereit' é das bestias obedecer, No. 52 3:16
- Tod' ome deve loor dar, No. 230 4:01
- Da que Deus mamou o leite do seu peito, No. 77 4:16
- A Madre de Deus devemos tener mui cara, No. 51 12:06
- Ben ya sahhara Aurora Moreno Esteban Valdivieso 4:06
- Ben aindi habibi Aurora Moreno Esteban Valdivieso 5:51
- Perdí la mia rrueca (Anonymous) 2:27
- De Antequera salió el moro (Anonymous) Arr: Miguel de Fuenllana 6:20
- Danza alta Francisco de la Torre 2:18
- Pase el agoa (Anonymous) 2:39
- Tres morillas (Anonymous) 4:12
Cantigas de Santa María (Traditional)
Performers
- La Romanesca
- Hartley Newnham · countertenor, percussion
- Ruth Wilkinson · vielle, recorder, voice
- Ros Bandt · recorder, flute, psaltery, percussion, voice
- John Griffiths · lute, vihuela, percussion
Composers
Miguel de Fuenllana
Miguel de Fuenllana (c.1500–1579) was a Spanish Renaissance vihuelist and composer, blind from birth. His Seville publication of 1554, Orphénica Lyra, remains a cornerstone of the vihuela repertoire.
Francisco de la Torre
Francisco de la Torre left villancicos, funerary polyphony and a single court dance from late fifteenth-century Spain. His Alta, built on the La Spagna tenor, is the piece that still turns up in programmes of Iberian Renaissance song and dance.
Where to listen
Iberian Triangle is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Iberian Triangle is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3114
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 70 minutes 1 seconds
- Producer
- John Griffiths
Martin Wright - Recording Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Melba Hall
- Release date
- 1992
- Musical work
copyright - © 1992 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1992 Move Records
- Categories
- Early music, Vocal
- Genres
- Early Music, Vocal & Opera, World & Cross-cultural
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574311426
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