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In Terra Aliena (In Foreign Territory) features Musica Temprana conducted by Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel. It is their 7th album on the Cobra Records label in Stereo, 5 Channel Surround Sound and Binaural DSD from the Edit Master Source at NativeDSD. It is Exclusively Available in DSD from NativeDSD.
The album includes songs that tell of exile and longing for the land that had to be abandoned due to war, expulsion and other dangers & threats. The songs also testify to a different kind of exile, the alienation that the unfamiliar new environment brings. Migration is off all times, and certainly not just a phenomenon of the present.
This album’s music addresses the mindset of people from another time, the 16th century. In 1492, Columbus arrived in America and Spain conquered the Nazaré dynasty of Granada, putting an end to the Muslim rule on the peninsula. In that same year, the Jews were driven out of Spain or forced to convert to Christianity. All this caused Muslims and Jews to flee to the north of Africa. Roman Catholics from Castile and Aragon left for America. Large numbers of seafarers and invaders were never to return to the peninsula.
Given all this, we can say that there were enough reasons for poetry, and consequently song, to introduce a new leitmotif, namely ‘in foreign territory’. Those who are exiled, lose everything familiar and loved in one fell swoop. The same thing happens to anyone who knocks on a closed heart in vain: a lonely journey from everything to nothing. These are just some of the subjects of the songs recorded in the famous Spanish and Portuguese songbooks of the period such as the Cancionero Musical de Palacio and Cancionero Musical de Lisboa.
On the album In terra aliena gems from these songbooks by composers as Juan del Encina, Francisco de Peñalosa, Pedro de Escobar as well as anonymous composers, all of whom excellently expressed in sound the theme of alienation and the fragility of life ‘In foreign territory’.
Música Temprana
Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Founder & Conductor
Tracklist
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| SKU | COBRA0095 |
| Qualities | DSD 512 fs, DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, DXD 32 Bit, DXD 24 Bit |
| Channels | 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo, 2ch Binaural, 2ch Stereo & 2ch Binaural, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround & 2ch Binaural |
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| Release Date | August 20, 2024 |
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The baroque and early music group, Música Temprana, are consistently excellent. They are worth seeking out if you have any interest in music of this period played on period instruments… Woven throughout the fabric of Música Temprana’s music and instruments is the rich cultural diversity of Latin America, with the threads of many Creole, Indian, African and European influences. Over their years of performance, they have built a rich recorded portfolio of interesting music.
…The poems collected in this album are about the themes of the exile: the letters, the moment of departure, being a captive in a foreign country and searching for a suitable place for a grave, to avoid the eternal suffering of the exile.
Somber stuff—reflected in achingly beautiful music and poetry. Beautifully performed, supremely well recorded.
Recorded in the Pieterskerk, Utrecht (The Netherlands), April 13 -16, 2024, we have a natural acoustic venue that complements and enhances the music, instruments and voices. Cobra Records owner and recording engineer, Tom Peeters, captures this superbly.
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