English lutenist and singer Shirley Rumsey earned high marks, both critically and artistically, for Music of the Italian Renaissance, her debut on Naxos. Rumsey's second go-round with Naxos was Music of the Spanish Renaissance, recorded in 1991. It pulls together some of the "hits" common during the second phase of the Iberian inquisition, a mixture of fantasias, instrumental dances, and songs. In the course of the album, Rumsey utilizes two different vihuelas, a lute, a Spanish guitar, and her voice. Sprinkled throughout ...
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English lutenist and singer Shirley Rumsey earned high marks, both critically and artistically, for Music of the Italian Renaissance, her debut on Naxos. Rumsey's second go-round with Naxos was Music of the Spanish Renaissance, recorded in 1991. It pulls together some of the "hits" common during the second phase of the Iberian inquisition, a mixture of fantasias, instrumental dances, and songs. In the course of the album, Rumsey utilizes two different vihuelas, a lute, a Spanish guitar, and her voice. Sprinkled throughout the program one will find such "usual suspect" Spanish lute and vihuela composers Luis Milán, Miguel de Fuenllana, and Alonzo Mudarra, but in no more relief than more obscure and intriguing figures such as Esteban Daza, a latecomer to this genre; enthusiastic amateur Diego Pisador; and the little-known, but eccentrically original Enriquez de Valderrábano. Anonymous pieces make up the rest, including several songs drawn from the Cançoner del duc de Calàbria and a couple of manuscript...
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