Credits:

Patino, Carlos (1600-1675)

Description:

This elegant world of music captivated the court of the planetary king Felipe IV. It is clear that his compositional career was not limited to religious music, and he also wrote many vocal works in Spanish for secular audiences. In this album, musicologist and conductor Alberto Recasenes brings together such secular works by Patiño, inviting the listener into the world of 17th century Spanish music, which developed in a unique way in contrast to the European countries where the concertante style was at its height. The performance is deeply enchanting with its consistent elegance. The liner notes, as always with LAUDA, are in black-and-white, but are richly illustrated (in Western, English, French, and German, with lyrics in Western, English, and French translations), making this an excellent project that provides a high-resolution look at the true face of Spanish art at the end of the Golden Age. Naxos Japan