classical music: Alfonso X (el Sabio)

classical music: Alfonso X (el Sabio)

classical music:

Alfonso X (el Sabio)

Isaac Albeniz, Mateo Albeniz, ...

Polygram Records, 1989

The Best Recording of Classical Spanish Guitar Music. Period
This recording easily deserves 6 stars. The world of the guitar simply has no equal to the mastery of Narciso Yepes. Yepes was a consummate technician and a knowledgeable interpreter of all musical idioms from the Middle Ages through to the height of the 20th ...

Discover Early Music

Alfonso X (el Sabio), 11th century French Polyphony Anonymous, ...

Naxos, 2005

awesome value -- 5+ stars
I'm really enthusiastic about these CDs and booklet. I've had it for a few weeks now, in which I've explored Medieval and Renaissance music much more deeply than this little book and CD set. Yet I'm very glad I started with these. The selection of composers gives an ...

The Recorder: 4 Centuries of Recorder Music

Anonymous, Italian Anonymous, ...

Lyrichord Discs Inc., 1998

Excellent overview
I was introduced to this collection at an institute of The California Arts Project which focused on teaching beginning recorder. This CD has an excellent variety...using the different types of recorders, and music of different periods. This CD is good for ...

A Mediterranean Christmas

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Warner Classics, 2005

Transforming!
As fans of the Boston Camerata for decades, we giddily add a CD every couple of years to our collection. And while everything from the BC masterfully declares the glories of Western religious, literary, music, and linguistic heritage, this CD has the power to stop you ...

A Medieval Christmas

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Ex Cathedra Records, 1999

An Excellent Alternative
This is not a "run of the mill" Christmas CD. These pieces were written hundreds of years before Christmas Carols became popular. Plainsong chant and insturmental excellence abound. This cd even has medieval drumming. I listen to this one all year around.

The Black Madonna

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous, ...

Naxos, 1998

Would be Worth Buying at Three Times the Price
One of the hidden gems of the Naxos catalog are the series of recordings of Medieval music by the Ensemble Unicorn with Michael Posch. The music they choose to record here comes from the 14th century Llivre Vermell de Monstserrat preserved there in an codex of five ...

Spanish Music of Travel and Discovery/ The Waverly Consort

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Juan de Anchieta, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

Beware! two old CDs reissued with a new name
I bought this CD with great anticipation because I love Spanish music of this era. To my disappointment, this was not a new recording, but a reissue of two CDs I already own: "1492: Music from the Age of Discovery" and "Traveler." If you don't have these CDs already, ...

Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Decca, 1996

a voice teacher and early music fan
MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE PRESENTED BY PHILIP PICKETT. To quote from the accompanying booklet seems to be in order to start this review: "This collection attempts to wipe the dust from some old ideas and restore music from the ...

Orient - Occident

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Alia Vox Spain, 2006

East meets West in an enticing program featuring one of the best Early Music ensembles around
Fans of Early Music should be familiar with Jordi Savall and his highly polished and innovative Hespèrion XXI ensemble. Savall's releases on the Alia Vox label are usually theme based and contain a highly varied, excellently performed program of Early Music works. ...

Songs Of Spain / De Los Angeles, et al

Victoria De Los Angeles, Lluís Claret, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

A special Dignity and an Unfailing Beauty of Voice.
This set offers four generously-filled CDs comprising almost 140 Spanish songs from Victoria de los Angeles' repertoire. To all of them she brings a special dignity and an unfailing beauty of voice. The earliest recordings date from 1950 and the last is the items ...

Montserrat Figueras: The Voice of Emotion/La Voix de L'Emotion

Daniele Carnovich, Alfonso X (el Sabio), ...

Fontalis, 1997

Beautiful voice
I'm not a conesseur, but bought this on the advice of a review on NPR. It's a very nice CD of Baroque-era music.

Chanticleer: Sound in Spirit

Chanticleer

Warner Classics, 2005

So rich, so beautiful
I really can't understand why this Chanticleer recording in particular should garner such a comparatively large amount of negative reactions. I suppose some people simply have an insurmountable aversion to non-western and/or non-traditional musical ideas. Still, other ...

Best of Estampie: 1986-2006
Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Noir, 2007

A 20 year retrospective from one of Europe's leading medieval ensembles. Includes tracks from their years with Warner Classical, Christopho, and Galileo Music.

Alfonso X "El Sabio": Cantigas de Santa Maria

Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, ...

Naxos, 1995

One of the Gems of the Naxos Catalog
I remeber the first time I played this CD it captivated me from the very first note and gripped my attention all the way to the very end. The wildness of the Spanish mysticism expressed in this Marian music from 13th century Iberian peninsula recorded here exerts a ...

Cello

Barry Phillips, Todd Phillips, ...

Gourd Music, 2000

Barry Trivia
This brilliant CD is a collage of music from all over the world. When people pick up this album I think they may be expecting something with more of a Classical flare, but in fact Barry is known for his gifts as an interpreter of world music as well as an ...