Cantigas de Santa Maria - Clemencic Consort

Ensemble: Clemencic Consort
Album: Troubadours / Cantigas De Santa Maria (CD3)
Video: E Codex
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This 2021 is the anniversary of the 800 years from the birth of Alfonso X El Sabio. To celebrate him, this year I'll share many versions of his Cantigas! This is the third video about it, you can easily find the others on the channel.
This third version of the Cantigas is from the Clemencic Consort, one of my three favorite ensembles for medieval music. As always, Clemencic's conducting prefers to approach historical accuracy with courageous and often not easily accessible choices for a not accustomed ear to medieval music. The musicians who accompany him in this first volume are among the best with whom Clemencic has worked over the years including René Zosso on vocals and hurdy-gurdy and soprano Pilar Figueras.
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Alfonso X was born in 1221, he was King of the Romans, of Castile and León. His father was Ferdinand III, a liberal man called "the Saint" and the "King of religions" as during his reign he managed to make Christians, Muslims and Jews coexist in peace. His mother was Elisabetta Hohenstaufen, nephew of Frederick Barbarossa. From the sources that speak of his life we ​​know that in his youth Alfonso was surrounded by numerous paramours and politically helped his father in many military campaigns, but it was his love for Art that made him immortal with the nickname "El Sabio". In 1254 Alfonso endowed with many privileges the school of Salamanca, founded by his grandfather, and thanks to Pope Alexander IV, he obtained permission to make the school an international university allowing its graduates to teach anywhere, except Paris and Bologna. Alfonso tried to bring together all the knowledge of his time in the language spoken by his subjects by founding the School of Translators of Toledo; the Muslim and Jewish sages of his court translated ancient Arabic and Hebrew works into Castilian. His scientific, historical and literary work was fundamental; promoted the drafting and publication of a series of authoritative texts in various fields of artistic and scientific culture such as the Alfonsine Tables: astronomical tables capable of providing the positions of the Sun, planets, stars and the dates of eclipses. He was also an excellent poet and even the author of one of the first treatises on chess. However, it was Music that handed it over to legend thanks to the collection of the famous Cantigas de Santa Maria, monophonic songs of the XIII cent. now preserved in Madrid and Florence, containing an enormous number of compositions and representations of musical instruments and players. The outset of these compositions can be traced back to the troubadour art, which were so successful as to induce Alfonso X to use both the language and the form. Marian devotion was particularly in vogue in this century, the collection sees the participation of aristocrats and courtiers, bourgeois, friars, clerics and jesters of humble origins, but protected in the courts. King Alfonso himself composed cántigas, some of which incite poets and jesters to dedicate their efforts and inspiration to the “Santa Dama”. In addition to the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Cantigas de Amigo, popular, melodious and melancholic, also spread in that period, showing some contact with the Mozarabic kharge in Arabic-Hebrew composed in the XI cent.. The work has great importance from a triple point of view: literary, musical and pictorial. Alfonso X inherited from his father Fernando III his musical chapel which brought together interpreters and composers of various cultures and who formed part of the alphonsine court, similar to his School of translators or scriptorium regio. He seems to be surrounded by them in some miniatures. The melodies are influenced by Gregorian monody, popular lyric and troubadour songs. The Codices of the Escorial Library are adorned and profuse with miniatures, fundamental for the reconstruction of 13th century musical instruments: flutes, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, lute, vielle, cítara, guiterne, harp, castañuelas, bagpipes, dulzaine...
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1 Prologue - Porque Trobar
2 Cantiga 2 - Muito Devemos Varoes
3 Cantiga 30 - Muito Valuera Máis
4 Cantiga 264 - Pois Äos Seus Que Ama
5 Cantigas 5 & 59 (Instrumentales)
6 Cantiga 47 - Virgen Santa Maria, Guárda-nos
7 Cantiga 322 (Instrumentale)
8 Cantiga 37 (Instrumentale)
9 Cantiga 340 - Virgen, Madre Gloriosa
10 Cantiga 166 (Instrumentale)
11 Cantiga 100 (Version I) - Santa Maria, Strela Do Dia
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Conductor, Liner Notes, Recorder, Crotales - René Clemencic
Hurdy Gurdy - René Zosso
Soprano Vocals - Pilar Figueras
Countertenor Vocals - Zeger Vandersteene
Baritone Vocals - Pedro Liendo
Bombarde, Chirimia Gigante - Alfred Hertel
Goblet Drum (Zarb) - Djamchid Chemirani
Vielle - Michael Dittrich
Zither (Tympanon), Carillon, Drum Tabor - Johann Krasser
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[@ManuelFSX]

No he didn't, when he reconquered Seville, Jaén or Córdoba, he expelled the entire Muslim population to repopulate it with Christians. In the case of Seville, not being able to mobilize enough Christians, he gave Muslims an option to remain in the city in exchange for converting to Christianity. The myth of coexistence is false, there was none, and this is demonstrated by the most modern genetic analyzes, the reconquest involved a total ethnic cleansing. People confuse what happened in the scientific field, where there was an exchange of knowledge, but this does not translate to what happened with ordinary people.

[@ManuelFSX]

In the 13th century the Iberian Muslims, the Almohads, were radical religious fundamentalists from North Africa, people who would have got on well with today's fundamentalists from Iran or the Islamic State. These were not the people who brought the knowledge to Spain, those were the Umayyads who came from Bagdag, not the radical Moors from North Africa.

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@@ManuelFSX I've edited my comment to remove the remark about Ferdinand III.

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But this is from 300 years before you were born!

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Thank you so much, I have been looking for this album since forever. The version from cantic 166 at 46:20 was reused in the movie Conan the Barbarian with added vocals by the way, it's a great alternative version.

[@jjoanmmas]

Four codices have been preserved from the Cantigas de Santa María, all of them from King Alfonso X's own court. The melodies are inspired by Gregorian monody, popular lyric and troubadour songs, and mostly take the form of rondeau, with a musical refrain that is repeated after the glosses. The codices in the Biblioteca de El Escorial (Madrid · Spain) are adorned with a profusion of miniatures. Many of them have been of capital importance for Spanish organography, since there the instruments of the thirteenth century can be appreciated: organistrum, psalter, lute, bow viola, rebec, zither, harp, horn, trumpet, castanets, cleats, dulzainas and much others. And you can also investigate how these instruments were played, which have been reproduced to be able to play this music.

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I think the reason for the troubadour influence was to appropriate the courtly love tradition for the Virgin Mary.

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