Antonio de Cabezón - Santiago de Murcia - Giovanni Battista Vitali - Henry de Bailly - Luis de Briceño - Alonso de Mudarra - José Marín - Antonio Martín y Coll - Mateo Flecha the Elder

Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Baroque

Accademia del Piacere | Fahmi Alqhai | Quiteria Muñoz

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917200188

Catalog number: CC 720018
Releasedate: 07-03-25

- Challenge Classics is proud to present the first collaboration with reputed Spanish ensemble Accademia del Piacere.
- Accademia del Piacere for about ten records which have received several awards around the world
- This new recording by Accademia del Piacere focuses on the work of improvisation, ornamentation, embellishment on famous Baroque tunes of the Spanish baroque - according to 17th Century style and practice
- Once more Accadmia del Piacere delivers a disc full of energy, colours and invention, faithful to its name: Academy of Pleasure.

The rise and splendour of the Spanish Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries spread Spain’s cultural wealth and diversity far and wide, embracing musical traditions whose roots mixed Christian, Muslim, Jewish and American influences. This transformed cultural and musical fashions throughout Europe. The original scores were basic skeletons, to which the musicians added a plethora of personal interpretation: arrangements, glosses and a world of ornamentation. Accademia del Piacere and Fahmi Alqhai have spent years working on this Spanish approach in order to revive this spirit through improvisation, bringing this music back to life.

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