The La Cantada española en América title of this release doesn't mean quite the same thing as the American designation means in the various recordings of secular and semi-secular Spanish genres that have been released by Jordi Savall and other ensemble leaders. The pieces recorded here came from the archives of Guatemala City's cathedral, it's true, but they were Spanish works that were widely copied in the Old World as well as the New, and there's none of the African or Amerindian influence that began to creep into Spanish ...
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The La Cantada española en América title of this release doesn't mean quite the same thing as the American designation means in the various recordings of secular and semi-secular Spanish genres that have been released by Jordi Savall and other ensemble leaders. The pieces recorded here came from the archives of Guatemala City's cathedral, it's true, but they were Spanish works that were widely copied in the Old World as well as the New, and there's none of the African or Amerindian influence that began to creep into Spanish music in Central and South America. The music is no less interesting for that, however, and it even offers some of the fascinating mixture of sacred and secular elements that makes the New World repertory so unusual. Musically the pieces are hard to distinguish from Italian solo cantatas from essentially the same era -- the notes by Cristina Diego Pacheco trace how in the "international" Baroque period the Spanish were quick to copy Italian trends, and to diffuse them to their...
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Add this copy of La Cantada Espanola En America to cart. $25.96, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Harmonia Mundi Fr.
