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La Rosa: Sephardic Love Songs c. 1400–1600
La Rosa: Sephardic Love Songs c. 1400–1600
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About this musical offering...
We performed this concert in 2001 as part of the 3rd Texas Early Music Project Mid-Winter Festival of Music. It was TEMP’s first concert that was completely dedicated to Sephardic music, and it was heavily influenced by my years of performing with the Clearlight Waites. Almost everyone in the concert had been a member of Clearlight or had performed with them, and the resulting CD has long been a favorite. We are putting out this slightly edited re-issue of that CD partly as a tribute, but also partly for the most practical of reasons: Technology has changed, and most modern CD players won’t play the original version with its press-on label! We hope this music will entrance you as it has us.
Recorded live February 11, 2001, Jay Norwood, Recording Engineer
First English Lutheran Church, Austin, TX.
Enjoy these audio samples from La Rosa:
See also the related recordings, Night and Day: Sephardic Songs of Love and Exile and Convivencia: Love and War in Renaissance Spain, which has been recommended as supplemental material for the free, online Coursera course, Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe, taught by Dr. Roger L. Martínez-Dávila and Dr. Ana B. Sanchez-Prieto.
Texas Early Music Project
Daniel Johnson, psaltery & singer
Stephanie Prewitt, singer
Kit Robberson, vielle
John Walters, oud, rebec, & vielle
Brad Benton, winds
Heather Gilmer, rebec
Therese Honey, harp
Kamran Hooshmand, oud & santur
