About the composer
Alonso de Alba, who died about 1520, was a Spanish composer, probably also a singer at the
court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
| Date | ca. 1510? |
| Performers | 2 Tenors and Bass |
| Length | 3.45 minutes |
| Particulars | A polyphonic interpretation of the first stanzas. |
| Textual variations | Only the first two stanzas are sung. |
| CD | EMI CDS 7 54341 2 (2 CD's) Spanish and Mexican Renaissance Vocal Music |
| About this CD | The first disc is a representation of what someone, living in
the Spanish court in the period 1475 - 1520 might have heard there. The second disc
explores how that musical tradition was exported to Mexico and how it developed there. The
music varies from "almost plain chant" to complicated polyphony, in secular as
well as sacred works. Recorded 1991. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands in 1998. |
| Choir | The Hilliard Ensemble |
| Soloists | Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter, tenor Gordon Jones, bass |
| Other works | Alonso de Montejar: Ave rex noster Francisco de Penalosa: Inter vestibulum et altare + Magnificat Martin de Rivaflecha: Vox dilecti mi Pedro de Escobar: Clamabat autem mulier + Salve Regina Juan del Encino: Triste Espana sin ventura + Mas vale trocar + Cucu, cucu + Oy comamos y bebamos Juan de Lienas: Salve Regina Cristobal de Morales: Pater noster + Parce mihi, Domine + Magnificat Hernando Franco: Memento mei, Deus Alonso Lobo: O quam suavis est, Domine Francisco Gutierrez de Padilla: Transfige, dulcissime Domine |
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