Le Labyrinthe d'Ariane - Arianna Savall (Hybrid SACD)

In her first solo album as a singer and harpist, Arianna Savall introduces us to a repertoire from the medieval and Baroque periods performed with seven different historical harps. The music comes from three countries where the harp has held a prominent position in cultural life: Italy, France, and Spain, in which the harp experienced a flowering of unique variety and beauty.  Arianna Savall with her crystalline voice and her sweet playing, reaches the depths of these distant but at the same time so timeless music.

A lost paradise in which hope is awaiting now, to embrace us.

“On this occasion we join her in a joyful Labyrinth, one without a Minotaur, from which we emerge enriched by a beautiful experience both musical and mythological, thanks to the musical thread of another Ariadne and her newly evocative and inspirational journey in the company of harps and songs.”
Jordi Savall

Efforcier m’estuet ma voiz* – Gautier de Coinci (1177-1236)
Voix et Harpe gothique

Rotundellus I – instrumental* – Anonyme (improvisation)                                     
          Harpe romaine

Amors mercé non sia* – Anonyme : Cc. de Sant Joan de les Abadesses XIIIe siècle
Voix et Harpe romaine

Rotundellus II – instrumental* – Anonyme (improvisation)                                    
          Harpe romaine

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Strela do dia, d’après CSM 100/166 – instrumental* – Alfonse X le Sage            
          Rota

Fantaisie sur Stella splendens – instrumental* – Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
          Harpe double d’Aragon

Lamento di Tristano / La Rotta – instrumental* – Anonyme. Trecento italien
          Harpe gothique

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Une jeune fillette* – Anonyme français XVe siècle
          Voix et Arpa doppia

Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico                             
Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580)

          Arpa cruzada de dos órdenes

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Toccata II Arpeggiata* – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580-1651)
          Arpa triple (Arpa doppia a tre registri)

Toccata Seconda & Ligature per l’arpa – Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647)
          Arpa triple (Arpa doppia a tre registri)

Folle è ben che si crede, 1638 –Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665)
          Voix et Arpa triple (Arpa doppia a tre registri)

Toccata VI – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger
          Arpa triple (Arpa doppia a tre registri)

Ritornello per l’arpa (L’Orfeo) – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
          Arpa triple (Arpa doppia a tre registri)

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Españoleta – Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626-1677)
Arpa cruzada de dos órdenes

Folies d’Espagne* – Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) / Arianna Savall
Arpa cruzada de dos órdenes

*Arrangements/Versions musicales d’Arianna Savall