The Iberian Peninsula in the 13th century was home to a great exchange of cultures. One result: the cantiga, a combination of old and new musics from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources that told stories of adventure, calamity, and redemption, here brought to life by the Ensemble Alcatraz.
The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.
The Iberian Peninsula in the 13th century was home to a great exchange of cultures. One result: the cantiga, a combination of old and new musics from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources that told stories of adventure, calamity, and redemption, here brought to life by the Ensemble Alcatraz.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Peter Clancy
Recorded at Lone Mountain Chapel, University of San Francisco, Ignatian Heights
Engineer: David Griesinger
Editing: Jack Vad/Gerry Kearby, IMS Dyaxis
Art direction: Henrietta Condak
Cover art: Claudio Bravo, Madonna, 1979-80
Private collection, Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery
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MUSICIANS
Ensemble Alcatraz:
Susan Rode Morris, soprano
Cheryl Ann Fulton, medieval harp
Kit Higginson, recorders and psaltery
Shira Kammen, vielle, rebec, lyre
Peter Maund, percussion
Assisting artists:
Anne Hodgkinson, soprano
Ellen McDonald, soprano
Lawrence Ohran, baritone
Mitchell Sandler, baritone
