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Music for the Spanish Kings.
Music for the Spanish Kings. Jordi Savall, Hesperion XX. Virgin Veritas x2, 7243 5 61875 2.
This mid-priced Virgin double set presents music recorded by Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX back in 1983, originally appearing, I believe, on two separate albums. The music is entirely from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from the reigns of Alphonoso, Ferdinand I, Charles V, and Philip II of Spain. The first disc includes numbers from various composers, Cornago, Pesaro, Toree, Gombert, Ortiz, and Nola among them. The second disc is devoted entirely to the music of Antonio de Cabezon.
As you would expect from this conductor and this band, the playing is exquisite, most always polished and refined as well as eventful and enterprising. They are aided by Virgin's truthful, lifelike sound, with its ...
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