Cantar de Amor

For Cantar de Amor, Fahmi Alqhai and Accademia del Piacere are joined by tenor and fellow Andalusian Juan Sancho for a new survey of 17th c. Spanish dramatic songs depicting the trials of love.Juan Hidalgo, the foremost musical figure of the time who, working with Pedro Calderón de la Barcain, produced a wide variety of musical theatre works, composed many of the tonos on this new Glossa release.Sancho and Accademia del Piacere have been able to gather together an excellent array of surviving canciones expressing the vibrancy and character of the torments of love in the Spanish theatrical manner.