This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Two new CDs with medieval songs from Southern European countries.
A) CD ‘Ondas, Martín Codax Cantigas de Amigo’
1. Quand’eu vejo las ondas (Cantiga de amor) – text: Rui Fernandes de Santiago, music: V. Biffi
2. Prelude (over Ondas do mar de Vigo)
3. Ondas do mar de Vigo (Cantiga de amigo) – text and music: Martín Codax
4. First Reflection (over Quand’eu vejo las ondas)
5. Mandad’ei comigo (Cantiga de amigo) – text and music: Martín Codax
6. Ai Deus, se sab’ora meu amigo (Cantiga de amigo) – text and music: Martín Codax
7. Eno sagrado, en Vigo (Cantiga de amigo) – text: Martín Codax, music: V. Biffi
Vivabiancaluna Biffi, vocals and viola d’arco
Pierre Hamon, medieval flutes
(CD Ondas, Outhere Arcana, A 390, 2015)
B) CD Ex Silentio – ‘Mneme’
8. Da que dues mamo (Cantiga de Santa Maria no. 77)
9. Puncha puncha (Sephardic traditional)
10. Lamma bada yatathana (Arab Andalusian traditional)
11. Zonaradikos (traditional dance of Thrace)
12. De poni amor (G. da Firenze, Italy 14th century, Squarcialupi Codex)
13. Aras pot hom (Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, 1180-1207)
Ex Silentio:
Theodora Baka, vocals
Tobias Schlierf, vocals, hurdy-gurdy, portative organ
Dimitris Kountouras, recorder, musical director Thimios Atzakas, oud
Andreas Linos and Elektra Miliadou, viol and viola da gamba
Nikos Varelas, percussion
(CD Mneme, Carpe Diem Records CD-16306, 2015)
Thanks to Prelude Klassieke Muziek in Baarn.