Mudarra: Songs & Solos for Vihuela & Guitar Review

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Mudarra: Songs & Solos for Vihuela & Guitar ReviewCatherine King and Jacob Heringman have made numerous appearances and broadcasts together throughout Europe and America.
Their four duo CDs (on ASV and Linn) have all been met with critical acclaim. Their latest release, Madrigals by Verdelot, with tenor Charles Daniels, was launched with a concert at London's Wigmore Hall. Heringman is also a renowned soloist.
"As one might expect, this recording is a thing of great beauty, subtly chosen and blended by performers of impeccable pedigree and virtuosity. Catherine King has a voice that many singers would die -- or even kill -- for. It is absolutely flawless, stunningly accurate, and its quality has uniformity across the range that would make any other singer spit. She is well paired with Jacob Heringmans equally subtle and artful playing."
- Julia Craig-McFeely, Early Music Review, May 1999
". . . I have enjoyed and praised Jacob Heringman's playing in previous ensemble recordings, so I am pleased to hear his work at greater length here. The focus of the collection is the vocal works, but Heringman intersperses them with Mudarra's tientos and fantasies, and there is an extended set of works for the guitar as well. Heringman displays a solid and effortless technique; the music flows beautifully, and has a natural shape that doesn't sound mannered. Heringman inclines toward the introspective, rather than the extroverted. Mezzo Catherine King. . . allows the text to come forth with clarity. Her diction is superb, and care has been taken to achieve the right period pronunciation for the Spanish texts, with a Spanish tinge given to the Latin as well. The famous Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique, the leading Spanish poet of the late fifteenth century, are exemplary. . . and the listener is drawn into the telling of the poetry. One would welcome the whole poem, if King were reciting it. . . . The sound is superb. Highly recommended."
- Tom Moore, Fanfare, 1997" ANOTHER REVIEW (From Goldberg)
Had this CD not included songs sung in Spanish, it would without doubt be the best of all those dedicated to Mudarra's repertory for voice and accompaniment. The voice of the mezzo-soprano Catherine King is warm and involving and her musical sensitivity exquisite, as is that of her accompanist on the vihuela, Jacob Heringman. The latter interprets, sometimes on the vihuela and at others on the guitar, various fantasias, tientos, and other short pieces for a string instrument played by the Spanish master, converting them into a model of clarity of "diction" on the instrument, which Heringman wisely employs to take music and not to show off his technique, which is much to be grateful for.
Something similar can be said of Catherine King, delightful in the pieces whose text is in Italian or Latin, but less successful in those in Spanish-seven of the fifteen she sings-a language which it is evident she does not know. Here, for example, is how King reads the mischievous villancico, with an anonymous text, which concludes the disc: "Yssabel [sic], Yssabel / perdiste la tua [sic] faxa / ¡ela po [sic] do va, / nadando pore l'agua [sic]! / ¡Yssabel atan garida [sic]!"
Evidently it needs to be borne in mind that the CD is not directed at the Spanish or Latin American market, since the texts of the accompanying booklet are given only in English, German, and French. Therefore both artists are to be thanked for their work in trying to popularise in non-Spanish-speaking countries the repertory of one of the best composers of accompanied monody of the Spanish Renaissance, Alonso Mudarra. MARICARMEN GÓMEZ
The Mudarra of Catherine King and Jacob Heringman is fresh, direct, and worth seeking out.
- Tom Moore, Goldberg Magazine's list of the best early music CDs of 1997
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