Christophorus Columbus – Lost Paradises – Jordi Savall, conductor - Alia Vox 9850 A+B (2 Disc set) SACD rip via PS3 to iso | (3.74 GB + 3.34 GB) | Released March 20, 2007 Recorded Sant Pere de Rodes Monastery, 6 May, 25 -27 June, July 10 and August 6 2006 Genre: Ancient Music, Classical | The aim of Paraísos Perdidos (Lost Paradises) is to give the literature, history & music of ancient Hesperia & the New World the recognition that they deserve. Keenly aware of the gulf of more than five hundred years which separates us from those remote times, we believe that the beauty & vitality of the music they have bequeathed to us have the power to move today’s audiences, in the same way that the poetic quality & expressive power of the texts recited in the programme movingly bring the dramatic events they evoke back into focus. We are also mindful of the fact that, despite the timeless artistic dimension of these various musical traditions, the instruments, individual forms & sounds associated with them – indeed, everything that goes to make up their characteristic styles, inevitably bears the imprint of the age in which they were created. We have therefore opted for appropriate historical accuracy in vocal & instrumental performance, enhanced by the corresponding creative imagination for which the vocalists & instrumentalists of the ensembles Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, as well as the soloists specialising in Oriental musical traditions & in the ancient instruments (Amerindian flutes) of the New World, are justly famous. – Jordi Savall Tracks: Disc 1: I Ancient Prophecies and Evocations 1. Introduction: Pierre Hamon (double flute),Pedro Estavan (percussion) 2. Invocation: Chorus: “Tethysque novos detegat orbes ” (music- Binchois) 3. Evocation 1 Medea: “Nunc iam cessit pontus et omnes patitur leges” 4. Invocation: Chorus: “Tethysque novos detegat orbes” 5. Evocation 2: Medea: “Terminus omnis motus et urbes” 6. Invocation: Chorus: “Tethysque novos detegat orbes” 7. Evocation 3: Medea: Venient annis saecula seris 8. Reading: “Venient annis saecuala seris” 9. Invocation: Chorus: “Tethysque novos detegat orbes” 10. Reading: “Vendran los tardos años del mundo . . . ” 1408 Reign of the Nasrid emir Yusuf III 11. Music: Hymn Sufi (instrumental improvisation) (Santur &Percussion) 12. Reading: “Description of the beautiful sights of Granada” – Ibn 13. Music: Mowachah Billadi askara min aadbi Llama (Al-Andalus) II Conquests and the birth of Columbus 1410 (September) Prince Ferdinand’s army conquers Antequera 14. Ancient Romance: El Moro de Antequera (Sephardic song) 15. Reading: “Having reached Antquera” Chronicle of Kings of Castille, Ch. 16. Music: Zappay (instrumental) CMM 20 1443 (February) Alfonso V the Magnanimous enters Naples 17. Music: Colinetto (instrumental) CMM 22Reading: “Here I shall relate the 18. Villota: Dindirindin – Anonymous CMM 127 1451 (October) Christopher Columbus is born 19. Reading: “Seeing as how his forefathers were of the royal blood of 20. Strambotto: O tempo bono – Anonymous CMM 132 III New Routes and Grand Project 1474 (25 June) Letter from the Florentine physician Toscanelli to Prince Juan 21. Music: voca la galiera (instrumental) Anonymous CMM 18 Reading: ” A 22. Basse Dance: Mappa mundi(Kyrie of the Mass) – Johannes Cornago 1480 Shipwreck off Cape St Vincent 23. Music: Chiave, chiave (instrumental)- Anonymous CMM 131 Reading: 1485 Columbus is married during his time in Portugal 24. Ancient song (s. XI) Reading: “Finding himself near Lisbon…” 25. Villancico: Meis olhos van por lo mare- Anonymous CMP 453 1486 – Columbus presents his project to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella 26. Reading: “Finally, having recourse to the Spanish expression…” 27. Frottola: In te Domine speravi- Josquin des Pres CMP 84 IV The Waning of Al-Andalus 28. Improvisation Arabo-Andalusain Song (santur & flute) 29. Reading: Arabic text by Ibn Zamrak 30. Kharcha: Ya am laja halki (Andalusia, 13th century) 1492 (2 January) The Conquest of Granada 31. Music: La Spagna (instrumental) Listen 32. Reading: Concerning the Treaty of the Alhambra and the surrender of Granada. 33-34. Villancico: Levanta Pascualque Granada es tomada – Juan del Enzina CMP 35. Romance: Qu’es de ti desconsolado – Juan del Enzina CMP Disc: 2 V The Sephardic Diaspora 1. Music: las Estrellas de los cielos (Sefardic anonymous) The Saint Inquisition 2. Hymn: Patres nostri peccaverunt- Johannes Cornago 1492 (31 March) Expulsion of the unconverted Jews 3. Reading: Edict of the Expulsion of the Jews, Joan Coloma (Secretary to the King and Queen) 4-5. Reading: Prayer in Aramaic: Ha lahma ‘anya Music: Prayer in Ladino: The Breadof affliction – Anonymous Sephardic Account of the expulsion of the Jews 6. Reading: “Within a few months…” Andres Bernaldez, confessor to Queen 7. Hebrew Lament: Ma aidej? Ma adamelaj – Anonymous VI Of Discoveries and Wrongs 1492 (3 October) First Voyage of Columbus 8. Music: Improvisation on a Fantasia de Lluis del Mila (Viheula) Reading: Christopher Columbus, Letter to the Catholic Monarchs (First voyage): « Having expelled all the Jews from your realms and dominions… » 9. Music: Voca la galiera(instrumental)- Anonymous CMM 18 1492 (12 October) The New World is sighted from the caravel the Pinta 10. Reading: “He sailed to the west-south-west.” Christopher Columbus, Ship’s log. 1502 Forced conversion of all Moors in the kingdoms of Castille 11. Music: Lament instrumental (improvisation) 12. Reading: “The King and Queen, seeing from the many signs given by the mudejar Moors…” 13. Music: Nuba Hiyay Msmarqi. Mizan Bsit. Ya muslimin qalbi – (Arabo-Andalusian lament, 16th century) 1502 Moctezuma II is proclaimed emperor of the Aztecs 14. Reading: Nauhatl poem on the fleeting nature of all things 15. Music:Homagio Kogui (Quena and Amerindian drums) 16. Reading: « ¿Acaso de verdad se vive en este mundo? … » VII The Last Will and Testament of Isabella and the Death of Colombus 17. Music: Departez vous (instrumental)- Guillaume Dufay 1504 The Last Will and Testament of Isabella I of Castile 18. Reading: On the treatment of the native Indians, Friar Bartolomé de las Casas’s reply to the physician Ginés de Sepúlveda 19. Villancico: Todos los bienes del mundo- Juan del Enzina CMP 61 1506 (20 May) Christopher Colombus dies in Valladolid 20. Music: Fortuna desperata – Heinrich Isaac 21. Reading: “In May, 1505…” 22. Music: “Miserere nostri/Vexilla Regis CMM 106 Epitaph 23. Music: Fantasía I – Lluís del Mila Fragment of a letter from the Admiral 24. Reading: “I am not the first Admiral in my family…” 25. Processional Hymn: Hanacpachap cussicuinin (Quechua)- Juan Perez Bocanegra Total Time: 2h 28′ 54″ This SACD rip was created using the following process: The ISO image was created using sacd-ripper for PS3 version 0.20. Artwork scanned at 800dpi, compressed (lossless) in a PDF file. https://www.filefactory.com/folder/9d3abe87d4ca752c