{"id":267,"date":"2013-01-28T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=267"},"modified":"2013-01-28T07:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T20:30:31","slug":"music-for-a-monday-el-bajel-que-no-recela-jose-de-nebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/28\/music-for-a-monday-el-bajel-que-no-recela-jose-de-nebra\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for a Monday: El Bajel que no recela (Jose de Nebra)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hearing a lot about Patricia Petibon for some time, so when I found myself in a bookshop recently, with a book voucher and Patricia Petibon’s CD “Nouveau Monde”, purporting to be Baroque arias and songs themed around voyages to new lands, I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n

This was the first track on the CD.<\/p>\n

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I love this.\u00a0 It starts out sounding like your normal, well-behaved sort of baroque aria, and you listen along politely, perhaps reading the lyrics, which compare love to a sudden tempest in one’s previously tranquil life (Bj\u00f6rk might agree with this idea), and then all of a sudden, there she goes, up into the stratosphere, and just stays there, showing off with mad octave leaps all over the place, and every note clear and sweet as a bell.\u00a0 I especially like the very end section where she goes sirening up and down, making me giggle, before going up and up and up, absolutely perfectly, to the very end.<\/p>\n

Lyrics are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El bajel que no recela
\nque se altere el mar sereno,
\nve una nube y oye un trueno
\ny ya teme el zozobrar.<\/p>\n

Asi el alma estando ufana,
\nel precepto es de Diana,
\ntempestad que la desvela
\ncon que empieza a naufragar.<\/td>\n

The vessel which suspects not
\nthat the tranquil sea will ever change,
\nspies a cloud, hears a roll of thunder,
\nand now fears being wrecked.<\/p>\n

Thus too a soul filled with pride,
\nsuch is Diana’s divine command,is disturbed by a tempest
\nand begins to founder.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And that’s just the start of the CD.\u00a0 The whole thing is magical beyond belief and definitely not your standard baroque compilation.\u00a0 Composers include Handel, Purcell, Rameu, Charpentier and Le Bailly, and very baroque pieces are interspersed with more Renaissaince-sounding material and South American folk songs like Tonada La Lata.\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed, Yo soy la locura (I am madness),\u00a0 by Le Bailly (sung here by Montserrat Figueras<\/a>), and J’ai vu le loup (I saw the wolf), a traditional piece (sung here by I’m not sure who<\/a>, I’m afraid!).\u00a0 But it’s all amazing and worth a listen.<\/p>\n

Nothing really compares to those mad sirens at the start, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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