NURIA RIAL

The Spanish Album

CD 1

from Claros y frescos ríos, with José Miguel Moreno (complete album);

01 Anonymous: Qué me queréis, caballero
02 Esteban Daça: Quién te hizo Juan Pastor
03 Juan Vásquez - Diego Pisador: En la fuente del rosel
04 Daça: A tierras agenas
05 Mateo Flecha - Miguel de Fuenllana: Teresica hermana
06 Cristóbal de Morales - Fuenllana: De Antequera sale el moro
07 Daça: Gritos dava la morenica
08 Anonymous: Diferencias de Conde Claros [instr.]
09 Alonso Mudarra: O gelosia d’amanti
10 Pisador: Si la noche haze escura
11 Mudarra: Ysabel, perdiste la tu faxa
12 Morales - Fuenllana: Benedictus de la missa de Mila regres
13 Pisador: Endechas
14 Fuenllana: Endechas
15 Enríquez de Valderrábano: De dónde venís, amore
16 Mudarra: Romanesca [instr.]
17 Mudarra: Si me llaman a mí
18 Mudarra: Claros y frescos ríos
19 Mudarra: Beatus ille
20 Vásquez - Fuenllana: Duélete de mí, señora
21 Pisador: La mañana de Sant Juan
22 Fuenllana: Fantasía [instr.]
23 Fuenllana: Passeávase el rey moro
24 Pisador: Dezilde al caballero

CD 2

from Miguel de Fuenllana: Orphénica Lyra, with Orphénica Lyra and José Miguel Moreno:

01 Flecha - Fuenllana: La Bomba
02 Luys de Narváez - Fuenllana: Passeávase el rey moro
03 Diego Ortiz - Jacques Arcadelt - Fuenllana: O felici occhi miei
04 Vásquez - Fuenllana: No sé qué me bulle
05 Flecha - Fuenllana: La Girigonça
06 Vásquez - Fuenllana: Con qué la lavaré
07 Vásquez - Fuenllana: De los álamos vengo, madre

from Música en el Quijote, with Orphénica Lyra and José Miguel Moreno:

08 Luys Milán: Pavana [instr.]
09 Anonymous: Jácaras - No hay que decirle el primor
10 Anonymous: Qué bonito niño chiquito
11 Juan Arañés: Chacona - A la vida bona

from Francisco Corselli: Oberturas, Arias..., with El Concierto Español and Emilio Moreno:

12 Achille in Sciro: Marcia. Allegro [instr.]
A ti, invisible ruiseñor canoro
13 Recitado
14 Aria. Andantino
Hasta aquí, Dios amante
15 Recitado
16 Aria. Allegro
17 Achille in Sciro: Ouverture. Affettuoso [instr.]
18 Lectio 2ª in Sabato Sancto
19 Lamentación 2ª del Jueves

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About this CD

The last decade or so has seen the blossoming of a new generation of vocal talents from Spain, many of whom have been expressing their art through early music. A leading figure in this artistic array has been the soprano Nuria Rial, a singer blessed with an unaffected declamatory style, sweet and yet intimate in its emotional charm. In recent years the career of Rial has seen her tackle with success music by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, as well as Pergolesi and much Italian seicento repertoire. This newly-prepared Glossa album turns the clock back to collect together recordings made by the fresh voice of the Catalonian soprano in the years immediately following her studies at the Musik-Akademie in Basel.

Joining the ensemble Orphénica Lyra of José Miguel Moreno Rial participated in a number of recordings demonstrating not just the radiant beauty of her voice but also all the understanding and nuances which that master of a variety of plucked-stringed instruments, Moreno, has been able to bring to Spanish music of the Renaissance and Baroque over the years. Over two attractively-priced CDs Nuria Rial expresses, with skill and pleasure, her instinctive understanding of the emotional temperature of pieces by the likes of Mudarra, Pisador, Fuenllana and Daça. Rial also make a joyously sympathetic contribution to a selection of Spanish works written by the underrated Piacenza-born composer Francisco Corselli with accompaniment from another Glossa stalwart Emilio Moreno and his El Concierto Español.

A compelling reminder of the richness of Spanish music from earlier centuries (admirably captured in the fullness of the Glossa style) and deliciously rendered by the sensual musical intelligence of Nuria Rial.