Various Artists - Secret Museum of Mankind: Central Asia / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa, is the only known work of Portugese composer Manuel Rodrigues Coelho. Printed in Lisbon in 1620 and boasting more than five hundred pages, Coelho's Flores de musica is one of the largest music works printed in the seventeenth century. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of it's original publication, a new edition in three volumes has been published with the research being used to inform this major new recording series. Organist Sérgio Silva performs on the 1762 Pascoal Caetano Oldovino organ of Elvas Cathedral, where Manuel Rodrigues Coelho started his musical studies and worked as an organist. Silva is joined by soprano Mariana Moldão and mezzo-soprano Maria de Fátima Nunes for the sung versos, which are accompanied on the smaller cabinet organ located near the chancel of the cathedral and built around the same time and by the same organ builder as the main instrument.

In Greek mythology, Thrace is defined symbolically as Inchthe daughter of Oceanus, sister of Europe, Asia and fertile Libya.Inch Thus, even in ancient times, emphasis is placed on the unique role played by this region as a crossroads of the cultural networks of the East and West. In the region of Thrace, musical borders between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey blur in a cultural continuum that is evident in the unique features of it's music and it's dances. The Rodopi Ensemble, named after the largest mountain range in the area, are from the Greek part of Thrace and the band has been performing for more than twenty years. They play with the mastery and traditional styles of their region. This album is a multi-colored mosaic of sounds, with clarinet, violin, kanun (Middle-Eastern zither), lute, toubeleki (Greek drum) and vocals.

Various Artists - Secret Museum of Mankind 3 / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/23/1996