Alonso de Alba
About the composer
Alonso de Alba, who died about 1520, was a Spanish composer, probably also a singer at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | ca. 1510 |
| Performers: | 2 Tenors and Bass |
| Length: | 3.45 minutes |
| Particulars: | A polyphonic interpretation of the first stanzas. |
| Textual variations: | Only the first two stanzas are sung. |
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Information about the recording
| CD: | EMI CDS 7 54341 2 (2 CD’s) Spanish and Mexican Renaissance Vocal Music |
| More info: | The first disc is a representation of what someone, living in the Spanish court in the period 1475 – 1520 might have heard there. The second disc explores how that musical tradition was exported to Mexico and how it developed there. The music varies from “almost plain chant” to complicated polyphony, in secular as well as sacred works. Recorded 1991. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands in 1998. |
| Choir: | The Hilliard Ensemble |
| Soloists: | Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter, tenor |
| Other works: | Alonso de Montejar: Ave rex noster |
| Code: | 1998 - (ALB 01) |
