Christophorus Columbus
Paradis Perdus / Lost Paradises
Paraísos Perdidos

Raices & Memoria, vol. VI
Racines & Mémoire, Vol. VI, - Roots and Memory,vol. VI 

Alia Vox AVSA9850 (A+B)
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Portrait posthume de Christophe Colomb
Portrait of a man said to be Christopher Columbus
Par/by: Sebastianio del Piombo (1485-1547)

 



 


Description

Artistes / Performers :
Montserat Figueras,
Hespèrion XXI,
La Capella Reial de Catalunya,
dir. Jordi Savall



Lieu d'enregistrement / Recording site:  Monastèr / Monastery : Sant Pere de Rodes (El Port de la Selva, Girona), Colegiata de Cardona (1998-2005)


Dates d'enregistrement:  
Juin, Juillet et Aout 2006
Recording datesJune, July & August 2006

Durée totale / Total time: 
CD 1: 78'14
CD 2: 70'40


 

 

 


 

 

C’est ... en récupérant et en revitalisant un ancien patrimoine musical tout en approchant, depuis une perspective différente, l’histoire et le passé, que nous pourrons imaginer et mieux construire la mémoire du futur.

JORDI SAVALL

Bellaterra, Eté 2006

"... it is only by rediscovering and revitalising the musical legacy of the past, at the same time as we approach history and the past from a different perspective, that we shall be better able to imagine and build the memory of the future.

JORDI SAVALL

Bellaterra, summer 2006

Évaluations recensées / Reviews located



05/2007

# 553 (12/2007)
 


Kate Bolton


Par: Matthias Lange
 


31:2 (11/12-2007)



Opus Haute Définition

(13/01/2007)

 


 

Par: Alexandre Pham

Par: Jean-Charles Goldstuck


Christophe Colomb
(1451-1506)


Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506)


Extrait du livret / From the liner notes

Christophe Colomb

Paradis Perdus

Notre passé n’est pas seulement le nôtre. L’espace géographique que notre culture a occupé durant des siècles contenait en son sein des gens différents, pratiquant d’autres formes culturelles et religieuses comme, au temps de l’ancienne Hesperia, la musulmane et la juive. Mais au Moyen Âge – qui fut comme l’époque actuelle, celle des haines religieuses et de l’incompréhension – le paradis des « Trois cultures » de l’Hesperia vint à se dégrader et pourtant malgré l’intolérance et les cruautés, Arabes et Juifs habitaient parmi nous, vivaient comme nous, étaient nous. À la fin du XVe siècle, après la conquête de Grenade, ils furent expulsés ou convertis au Christianisme par décret et leur départ signifia la fin d’une époque, la perte d’un paradis possible : les textes la dénoncent, les musiques la pleurent, la mémoire l’illumine et notre conscience la dignifie

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Christopher Columbus

Lost Paradises

We are not the sole owners of our past. The geographic space that our culture has occupied over the centuries has contained within it diverse peoples of different cultures and religions, such as the Muslim and Jewish communities in ancient Hesperia. But the Middle Ages, which, like the present day, was an age scarred by religious hatred and incomprehension, saw the decline of the former paradise of Hesperia and its “Three Cultures” where, despite all the intolerance and cruelty, Arabs and Jews lived among us, lived like us, were us. At the close of the 15th century, after the Christian conquest of Granada, they were expelled or forcibly converted to Christianity in compliance with royal decrees. Their departure marked the end of an era, the loss of a possible paradise: events which are decried in the written word, lamented in music, illuminated by memory and dignified by our conscience.

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Gramophone- 
(05/2007)


 

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Reviewer: Ivan Moody
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There's a very wide range of music, from an evocation of Seneca, whose words Columbus quoted, to the Quechua hymn Haimpachap cussicuinin, by way of Sufi-style improvisation, Andalusi and Sephardic music and liberal doses of polyphony, sacred and secular. The musicians must cover a huge array of styles, vocal and instrumental, but that is par for the course for Hesperion XXI and the Capella Reial."

"So while there is nothing precisely new in the performances or much of the repertoire here, those willing to give themselves over to the astonishingly vivid sound world captured on these SACD recordings will no doubt come away much enriched."
 
Diapason- 553 (12/2007)


Appréciation 

5 Diapasons

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Analyste: Roger Tellart
Extrait:
"Jordi et "Monsé" témoignent de cette destinée en fins musiciens et en poètes avec un choix foisonnant (pas moins de soixante pi`ces!) qui tourne à l'inventaire de tout un siècle et prétend à l'universalité (celle du monde connu à l'époque de la Découverte). Un patrimoine en fait fréquenté depuis toujours par nos interprètes: romances et lamentations de la diaspora séfarade, improvisations de la tradition arabo-andalouse, sans parler des emprunts au fonds religieux et séculier des franco-flamands et de la Tierra Madre, quitte à déborder sur le début du XVIe siècle et à s'aventurer sur les terres métissées du territoire amérindien. On ne se lassera pas de ces "Paradis Perdus", même s'ils résonnent à nos oreilles avec un je ne sais quoi de déjà entendu, conséquence de l'inaltérable beauté du son "Savall", qu'il soit d'hier ou d'aujourd'hui".


31:2 (11/12-2007)

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Reviewer: Barry Brenesal
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"... the performances by Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya cannot be faulted. Their members are acknowledged experts in their respective fields, often heard in previous concerts and CDs featuring Savall, and sometimes venturing out alone. From personal taste, I would single out the stylish and reflective performance of Dufay’s Departez vous by lutenist Xavier-Díaz-Latorre; Montserrat Figueras and Hespèrion XXI in the anonymous Sephardic romance, El moro de Antequera; and the entire Capella Reial in Cornago’s monstrously triumphal setting of the hymn, Patres nostril peccaverunt. The readers are clear and dramatically expressive after a fashion that smells more of life than greasepaint.

The packaging deserves a comment of its own. The look of it is that of a thick digest-sized book, which leads one to hopes of actually getting a tome along with your pair of CDs. This is, of course, not the case. There are three interesting essays by Manuel Forcano, Carlos Fuentes, and Rui Viera Nery (as well as a lengthy statement of purpose by Savall), but all of it is supplied along with full texts in successive waves of Spanish, French, English, Catalan, German, Italian, Arabic, and Hebrew translations. The lack of original texts in a variety of languages alongside translations is an annoyance.

Excellent sound is furnished, though sometimes with a cathedral-like reverberance around a voice—again, a matter of promoting a specific mood. I think this album would greatly please an early-music novice, or a student of the period, or perhaps people who wished to learn more of their own heritage. Others should look to the many other Alia Vox releases by Savall for strictly musical pleasure of a very high order."

 
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