Partitutas de Villancicos

Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI - Villancicos Y Danzas Criollas (2003) {Alia Vox AV9834}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 425 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 185 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 92 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2003 Alia Vox | AV9834
Classical / Chamber Music / Vocal Music / Baroque / Renaissance / World Music

For the uninitiated, the music on Jordi Savall's new Villancicos y danzas criollas disc is a revelation, gleefully crossing lines between sacred and secular, artistic and popular, and, most strikingly, European, African, and Amerindian. The selections included originated between the early 1500s and the early 1700s, and, unlike those on the Harp Consort's similar Missa Mexicana disc, come from Spain as well as the New World. Indeed, the two recordings together offer a perfect introduction to this fascinating, unfailingly enjoyable and often comic repertory.

Jordi Savall & Hesperion XX - Juan Del Enzina - Romances & Villancicos (1991) {Astrée-Auvidis E 8707}
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© 1991 Auvidis / Astrée | E 8707
Classical / Renaissance

Jordi Savall (born 1941), one of the world's leading players of the viola da gamba, founded the ensemble Hespиrion XX in 1974. Savall's goal — and that of co-founders Montserrat Figueras, Hopkinson Smith, and Lorenzo Alpert — was to explore lesser-known repertories of the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods; their special love has been early Spanish music. The group has toured over five continents and produced well over 50 recordings (many on the Astree Audivis label). The group's membership changes with the repertory of an individual recording or performance project, and with the particular orchestration envisioned by Savall.

I return to my vinyl rip origins: The Early or Ancient Music.
The ancient music ensemble “Atrium Musicae De Madrid” directed by Gregorio Paniagua, brings this, one of my favorites LP, before falling into a sort of fusion-new age in the 80s middle.

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Mexico Barroco: Puebla I - Maitines de Navidad
Benjamín Juárez Echenique (Conducer) - Schola Cantorum de Mexico & Angelicum de Puebla (Performers)
EAC Rip | FLAC | LOG | 1CD | 289 MB | Cover | RAR
EAC Rip | MP3 [Preset Fast Extreme] | LOG | 1CD | 139 MB | Cover | RAR
Genre: Classical Baroque | Label: URTEXT | Year: 1995

Like most Spanish maestros de capilla, Puebla, Mexico, Padilla composed a great number of chanzonetas or villancicos. These charming and melodious works encompass exquisite charm and refined elegance to unabashed humour; they are frequently framed with dance rhythms, often in a characteristic uneven triple time with abundant syncopation. All the words in this gender have melodic instrumental lines and accompaniments with great variety of possibilites: from a solo voice to a full choir.

The instruments were characteristic of Renaissence music: recorders, dulzian, shawms, cornets, voils, organ, crumhorns, etc. In Mexico, villancicos achieved such popularity that they were published even when paper was very scarce, and important works such as some writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz could not be printed.

Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Mexico Barroco: Puebla VII - Maitines de Navidad
Benjamín Juárez Echenique (Conducer) - Angelicum de Puebla (Performer)
EAC Rip | MP3 [Preset fast extreme] | LOG | 1CD | 110 MB | Cover | RAR
Genre: Classical Baroque | Label: URTEXT | Year: 1995

Like most Spanish maestros de capilla, Puebla, Mexico, Padilla composed a great number of chanzonetas or villancicos. These charming and melodious works encompass exquisite charm and refined elegance to unabashed humour; they are frequently framed with dance rhythms, often in a characteristic uneven triple time with abundant syncopation. All the words in this gender have melodic instrumental lines and accompaniments with great variety of possibilites: from a solo voice to a full choir.

The instruments were characteristic of Renaissence music: recorders, dulzian, shawms, cornets, voils, organ, crumhorns, etc. In Mexico, villancicos achieved such popularity that they were published even when paper was very scarce, and important works such as some writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz could not be printed.