Cantiga de Santa Maria 1 - Des oge mais

Cantiga de Santa Maria 1 - Des oge mais
Source: Cantigas de Santa Maria - Eno nome de Maria.
Ensemble Antequera, Johannette Zomer, dir.
CD info: www.medieval.or...
Antequera takes the approach that the Cantigas de Santa Maria were composed mainly in the troubadour style. Their interpretation therefore reflects melodies that are mainly European (Provence and France) with some influences from Jewish and Arabic cultures present at the time at Alfonso X's court.
Johannette Zomer (voice), Sabine van der Heyden (voice, sinfonia), Carlos Ferreira Santos (voice), Sarah Walden (viele), Lucas van Gent (rebab, recorder), René Genis (lute), Michèle Claude (percussion), Robert Siwak (percussion)

[@kevinpuja]

As a native Portuguese speaker, I love to listen to the old cantigas... :)

[@kittykisses1526]

Most beautiful of all the 400 plus Cantigas de Santa Maria. I have the whole collection and will never get to all of them :-) Intro is beautiful and the way your group slowly just slides the melody in is very beautiful and musically effective. Helen Smith

[@aaah1834]

Thank you! I have been searching for this song for months and now I have found it!

[@adolfoclaudiolazary5969]

Que hermosa música . Gracias. Lo tomo como otro regalo , hoy es mi cumpleaños

[@ANGELSVEN]

Wow, a 4 minute and 41 second intro....song sounds great, though.

[@Eric1Boul]

The intro is the foundation...

[@MarkHoemmen]

I’m not an expert but this is like a taqsim - an Improvisation that grounds the mode. The western European equivalent is a recercare / ricercar (“to search out” - that is, to explore the implications of the key and mode in order to ground it for a subsequent piece).

[@roxanaeroban5893]

Do you have a copy of the entire cd to share?