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Aranes / Diamond / Lux Musicae London - Secrets Of Andalusia

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 01/24/2025
UPC: 5060216344157

Secrets Of Andalusia
Artist: Aranes / Diamond / Lux Musicae London
Format: CD
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We know that key influences on Flamenco date backto Islamic Iberia or the Al-Andalusian era of Spainbetween the 8th-15th centuries. Yet the first mentionof Flamenco by name is not until 1774, where itappears in an epistolary novel, Cartas Marruecas, bythe playwright and soldier, Jose de Cadalso y Vazquez. In collaboration on with soprano Victoria Couper, kanunplayer, Konstantin nos Glynos, and oud/Flamencoguitarist, Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, this album seeksto explore this question by tracing the influences onFlamenco through Arabic music alongside Sephardicsong and the Spanish composers of the late-16th to18th centuries. What happened in these intervening centuries?
        
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