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25 Nov 11 - 09:47 AM (#3263261) Subject: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: Jack Campin One heck of a singer.... obituary in Lebrecht's blog |
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25 Nov 11 - 09:54 AM (#3263270) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray I'm speechless. My God. She's been my favourite singer for most of my life... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_6Y7skqCY |
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25 Nov 11 - 10:14 AM (#3263285) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: Stilly River Sage link to a performance from the obituary. Beautiful voice! SRS |
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25 Nov 11 - 10:21 AM (#3263290) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Obit from Limelight: http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/281232,montserrat-figueras-has-died.aspx |
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25 Nov 11 - 10:33 AM (#3263296) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Announcement from Alia Vox (recording company of Montserrat Figueras & her husband & musical partner, Jordi Savall - perhaps the key label of 'Early Music' in recent decades): http://www.alia-vox.com/index_Montse2.php |
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25 Nov 11 - 01:40 PM (#3263416) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: Q (Frank Staplin) I have most of her recordings. A shock, at 69 she was still in her prime. |
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25 Nov 11 - 04:31 PM (#3263488) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: JennieG A wonderful voice stilled too soon.....I have several Hysperion XX recordings, and have enjoyed her singing for a long while. |
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26 Nov 11 - 01:09 PM (#3263818) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras From: GUEST,John Foxen Shockingly sad. Her recording of No Piense Menguilla Ya would be one of my Desert Island Discs. |
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26 Nov 11 - 07:08 PM (#3263989) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray No Piense Menguilla Ya I have fond memories of them doing it in York Minster a few years back during the Early Music Festival. Missed the Radio 3 broadcast though. Anyone?? Likewise the Glasgow gig in May 1999 - which went out live so I couldn't record it as I was there... As I recall on that occasion they opened with Juan del Ezina's Una Sanosa Porfida. Here they are doing it live, with Montserrat at her most sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lLg0F_diA0&feature=related |
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30 Nov 11 - 08:45 PM (#3266437) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: GUEST,White,Michael I hoped to one day see her perform even if I had to travel from Australia to do so.Deep sympathy to that lovely family who have given so much to the world. |
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01 Dec 11 - 04:35 AM (#3266539) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Looking forward muchly to this for my ideal Xmas listening: MARE NOSTRUM Been listening back to the early recordings, even the first Hesperion XX album, back 1976, which in typical style juxtaposed music of Jewish and Christian Spain. I've still got an album of Cantigas de Santa Maria on Deutsch Harmonia Mundi on which Montserrat sings with Thomas Binkley's Studio der Frühen Musik, featuring the late Jason Paras, one of the promising violists & fiddlers of his generation, who died tragically young shortly after. Of those early recordings the Llibre Vermell stands out (still available last time I looked in HMV!) and the Troubairitz album, which features her sister Pilar, another of my life-long musical loves. |
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01 Dec 11 - 04:36 PM (#3266944) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: Q (Frank Staplin) The site MARE NOSTRUM requires enabling a cookie. Whose site is it? I presume that it is safe. |
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01 Dec 11 - 05:31 PM (#3266973) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Alia Vox issued the very attractive "Lux Feminae" album, songs from 900-1600 sung by Monserrat Figueras, with both history and lyrics in the original language and translations. Lovely illustrations as well. Worth adding to your listening. Expanding on Suibhne Astray's post, Virgin Classics reissued 8 discs of Hesperion XX under the title "España antigua," but the original booklets with lyrics are not included. Albums reproduced in this edition are the Trobairitz songs, Llibre vermeil (translations available elsewhere), Sephardic romances, coutr music fropm the age of discovery, Renaissance Neapolitan music, El barroco español, 16th century songs and dances, and instrumental music by Cabezon. I believe this reissue is still available. |
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01 Dec 11 - 07:20 PM (#3267014) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray I think it was an MDT link; it's not up at the Alia Vox site yet though it's released on the 5th of this month... Lux Feminae was the first Alia Vox hardback edition, although in the square format. After that they pushed the envelope somewhat with the lavish 2-disk Don Quixote hard-back book - an early album of that material features as part of the Espana Antiqua set; as ever it's interesting to contrast & compare the developments & continuities that thread though the Savall / Figueras canon like veins of pure gold. The recent Borgias set was amazing (+DVD) though my favourite of these remains the astonishing Royaume Oublie, a concert of which is on YouTube in several parts: I. Jordi Savall: Le Royayme Oublié, La Tragédie Cathare / Hespèrion XXI - features Montserrat Figueras singing with her psalterion. Sublime... |
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02 Dec 11 - 03:50 AM (#3267163) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray PS: Alia Vox - currently streaming Montserrat singing La Comtessa de Dia's A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu non volria (1175?? - from Le Royaume Oublie) on the main page. |
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19 Feb 13 - 01:45 PM (#3481511) Subject: RE: Obit: Montserrat Figueras (1942-2011) From: Jack Campin This is very moving: Memorial concert, 7 Dec 2011 Ottoman Turkish, Sephardic and Armenian music, with a recording of Figueras herself as an epilogue. |