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In Search of The Elusive Cantiga...
Sep. 15th, 2011 08:34 pmFollowers of this blog may be aware that I'm quite a devotee of medieval music. In my book, medieval music's much like historical fiction. You get the bare bones of an idea, and you use this as an outline around which the final interpretation is created.
I've experienced two interpretations of the Cantigas de Santa Maria until now. My favourite version is by the New London Consort, which sounds brusque, and rustic, and well... medieval. The other version was by Canty, the female singers from Scotland's Finest Purveyors of Late Medieval Music, Capella Nova. I love Capella Nova's stuff, particularly their Robert Carver masses, but I find Canty's cantigas a wee bit angelic and girlie for my tastes...
Today I was alone in the office, so - in an attempt to find musical inspiration for my Tarbolton data structure report (it worked, too!) - I trawled my way through the complete Carmina Burana (Carl Orff version) then went seeking cantigas.
I was pleasantly surprised. I don't buy medieval music on spec, in case I hate it, but youtube provides the prospective consumer with an ideal way of sampling new stuff. I found a particularly interesting interpretation of a cantiga that sounded very Moorish in its interpretation, and it was absolutely wonderful.
I've since spent the evening trawling my home version of youtube, and can I find this cantiga??? Can I heck!!!! I was hoping I'd find a link to it, but since it's playing hard to get, I CAN'T!! Even more frustrating - the guy who mounted the video in the first place didn't even tell us who performed it...
If I get the answer to this conundrum, I'll let you know. Until then, I'm cursed with the sound of angelic voices singing the refrains of CSM #100 in my head...
I've experienced two interpretations of the Cantigas de Santa Maria until now. My favourite version is by the New London Consort, which sounds brusque, and rustic, and well... medieval. The other version was by Canty, the female singers from Scotland's Finest Purveyors of Late Medieval Music, Capella Nova. I love Capella Nova's stuff, particularly their Robert Carver masses, but I find Canty's cantigas a wee bit angelic and girlie for my tastes...
Today I was alone in the office, so - in an attempt to find musical inspiration for my Tarbolton data structure report (it worked, too!) - I trawled my way through the complete Carmina Burana (Carl Orff version) then went seeking cantigas.
I was pleasantly surprised. I don't buy medieval music on spec, in case I hate it, but youtube provides the prospective consumer with an ideal way of sampling new stuff. I found a particularly interesting interpretation of a cantiga that sounded very Moorish in its interpretation, and it was absolutely wonderful.
I've since spent the evening trawling my home version of youtube, and can I find this cantiga??? Can I heck!!!! I was hoping I'd find a link to it, but since it's playing hard to get, I CAN'T!! Even more frustrating - the guy who mounted the video in the first place didn't even tell us who performed it...
If I get the answer to this conundrum, I'll let you know. Until then, I'm cursed with the sound of angelic voices singing the refrains of CSM #100 in my head...
