CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Reconstruction)      

Espana Antigua II : El barroco espanol, c 1640-1700 Jordi Savall, Hesperion XX

Spanish secular music c 1640-1700

Issued by EMI in 1978, reissued in 1990 in the Reflexe series, this recording has aged as little as the dazzling collection (Jose Marin, on Alia Vox) that Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras have since devoted to these tonos humanos (secular songs). It could moreover be thought that this reissue has not been made by chance... Jose Marin already figured, quite properly, in that recital alongside Martin y Coll, Milanes, Hidalgo, Cabanilles, Duron and Del Vado, all late 17th-century Spanish composers then largely unknown. Interlarded with instrumental pieces, including scintillating variations on La Folia, and a galliard on the harpsichord (with no less than Ton Koopman), Figuera's contributions are the pretext for a great freshness of inspiration, a voluble and firm eloquence and a sensuality of fascinating sonorities.With these musicians, the brilliant mixture of intuition and preparation has never weakened. And when you know who then constituted Hesperion XX-besides the two leaders, Ton Koopman, Hopkinson Smith and Christophe Coin-you will understand that if by chance this disc had eluded you since 1978 you must abandon Goldberg for just a moment to rush to your record shop.