Today’s Sunday music
feature showcases Montserrat Figueras singing the beautiful medieval Sephardic
romance, “La Rosa Enflorece”. She is accompanied by Hespèrion XXI, directed by
Jordi Savall. The recording is from their box set Dinastia Borgia,
released on Alia Vox in 2009.
An English translation of
the lyric may be found at this link, while the Spanish lyric can be found here.
Image links to its source
on Wiki Commons
Codex Manesse, UB
Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 20r: Graf Rudolf von Neuenburg - between
1305 and 1315
Public domain.
Beautiful! Thanks for posting, John.
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