Isabel I, Reina de Castilla [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import]

Jordi Savall (Artist), Daniele Carnovich (Artist), Canciero de Montecassino Anonymous (Artist), El Cancionero de Colombina Anonymous (Artist), Johannes Cornago (Artist), Guillaume Dufay (Artist), Juan del Encina (Artist), Pedro de Escobar (Artist), Luys de Narvaez (Artist), Pedro de Tordesillas (Artist), Francisco de la Torre (Artist), Arabic-Andalusian Traditional (Artist), Sephardic Traditional (Artist), Turkish Traditional (Artist), Carlos Verardi (Artist), Carlos Mena (Artist), Hesperion XXI (Artist), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Artist), Luca Guglielmi (Artist), Pedro Estevan (Artist), Arianna Savall (Artist), Montserrat Figueras (Artist), Miguel Bernal (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 2005)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
• Label: Alia Vox Spain
• ASIN: B0002XNM96
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,617 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Exultet caelum laudibus, vespers hymn (66)

2. Marcha turca

3. Toccata (68)

4. Dinos, madre del donsel, villancico (90)

5. Je ne vis onques la pareille, rondeau for 3 voices (attributed; also attrib. to Binchois)

6. La Spagna

7. Muy crueles bozes dan, villancico (6)

8. Pues que jamás olvidaros (From el Cancionero de Palacio)

9. Patres nostri peccaverunt, for 4 voices

10. Viva el gran Re Don Fernando con la Reina Don Isabella

11. El que rige y el regido

12. Paseávase el rey moro

13. Levanta, Pascual, cancionero (from Cancionero de Palacio)

14. Lavava i suspirava, romance

15. Mappamundi, bassa & alta danza (Trent Codex 88)

16. Françeses, ¿por qué rrazón?, villancico (Canionero de Palacio 424)

17. Sanctus (47)

18. Triste España sin ventura! for 4 voices

19. Canció en ritmo Quddan de la Nuba Gribt: Al Hussein de Marruecos

20. Requiem: Requiem aeternam (Graduale)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Jordi Savall's best concept albums, March 21, 2010

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This review is from: Isabel I, Reina de Castilla [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

This CD is like a soundtrack (and a thoughtful one at that) to a movie of the life of Isabel I. We are taken on a journey through the historical events taking place in her lifetime. The CD starts takes us from:

a beautiful anonymous piece: "Exultet Caelum laudibus",

a jaunty Turkish tune (recognising the signficiant events of 1453 and the fall of Byzantium. This is important because the CD takes the islamic theme up again near the end with a beautiful lament for the expelled muslims showing a kind of symmetry; and

finishing on a a beautiful requiem by Pedro de Escobar.

In many ways this is an extrordinary album with its range of musical styles - Gregorian chant influenced music, sacred music for the mass and the most beautiful folk like tunes togehter with eastern inspired music.

This all leads to a very moving experience!