Various composers

Journeys to the New World

The Queen's Six

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212062623

Catalog number: SIGCD 626
Releasedate: 21-08-20

- This is a musical trip from the mid-sixteenth century to around 1700, involving music in Late Renaissance style, carrying Spanish Catholicism across the Atlantic to supplant an indigenous culture.
- The Queen's Six show their versatility here - diverging from the British Folk Song's route they took in their first highly-acclaimed recording on Signum.

In this recording the singers present music by eight composers. Four of them never went to the New World; their music did. Three of them were born in Spain and were trained in music there; they held appointments in Spain and later emigrated to the new colonial cities. One more became the first composer-choirmaster to be born there of Spanish parents, thus criollo.

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