Artist: Vandalia, Ars Atlántica
Album: Hirviendo el Mar: Spanish Baroque Vocal Music
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 57:35
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 599 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – En una Concha de Venus (04:50)
1-02. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Heridas en un Rendido (07:30)
1-03. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Venid a Ver una Boda (05:35)
1-04. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Huyendo Baja un Arroyo (05:06)
1-05. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Que Festivo el Arroyuelo (04:48)
1-06. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – No Quiero Mas Burlas, Juana (04:45)
1-07. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Florecitas Que al Alba Salis (06:07)
1-08. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Los Ojos Negros de Juana (04:49)
1-09. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Hirviendo el Mar de Enemigos (03:11)
1-10. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – No Canteis, Dulce Ruisenor (03:50)
1-11. Vandalia & Ars Atlántica – Salio a la Fuente Jacinta (07:00)

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They are sung pieces, in verse and vernacular language, known in that period as human tones (or just tones) when they were profane, and divine tones when they were religious. Those composed in the first half of the 17th century were mostly polyphonic, which reveals that, in this period, polyphony was still thought to be the highest and most prestigious. The Book of Human Tones, preserved at present at the National Library of Spain under the signature M 1262, constitutes, with its 222 works, a privileged sample of all the aspects. Who might be interested in these works has now the possibility to listen to them in a retrained performance on four voices with harp accompaniment, one of the instruments used in this repertoire. If, on the one hand, the vocal quartet shows that the “grace notes” (“quiebros”) and voice effects do not constitute an impediment for the care of tuning, on the other hand the harp adds to the score beautiful introductory and transition passages based on the features of passacaglias and 17th century dances.