The Orange Tree Courtyard: Renaissance Music in and around the Cathedral of Seville | Pan Classics PC10448

The Orange Tree Courtyard: Renaissance Music in and around the Cathedral of Seville

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Label: Pan Classics

Cat No: PC10448

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 21st April 2023

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The Cathedral of Seville is a gigantic building even by today's standards - in 1401, the city's ecclesiastical superiors decided to build a huge church in place of the former mosque, which future generations would still marvel at, and is one of the largest churches in the world.

From the former mosque, the magnificent tower "La Giralda" remains, as well as the courtyard planted with orange trees, which also gives the name to the new CD by The Royal Wind Music.

The flute consort, consisting of 11 recorders of all sizes, takes the listener on a walk around and into the cathedral and lets Renaissance works created for this place sound at each station. The walk begins in the famous orange tree courtyard, goes to the magnificent altar of the Virgin Mary, looks out over the city from the tower, visits the tombs of the musicians Francisco Guerrero and Francisco Peraza as well as Christopher Columbus's son, the scholar Hernando Colón, until the path ends again in the courtyard. The music gathers the who's who of the Spanish Renaissance: Pedro de Escobar, Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, Miguel de Fuenllana, to name but a few.

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