Cinco Siglos is a musical ensemble devoted to the
early music
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. It was founded in Córdoba (Spain) in 1990 by Antonio Torralba and by its musical director Miguel Hidalgo Fernández. Cinco Siglos is focused on the instrumental repertoires from the
Middle Age
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This time span ...
, the
Renaissance
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and the
Baroque
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periods, with preference on those that combine the cultivated and popular styles.
The members of the ensemble are: Miguel Hidalgo (historical
plucked strings and musical direction), Antonio Torralba (
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
s), Gabriel Arellano (historical
violin
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s), José Ignacio Fernández (historical
plucked strings), Daniel Sáez (historical
plucked strings and Baroque
cello
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) and Antonio Sáez (
percussion
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).
Discography
*1995 - ''Unos tan dulces sones''. Usos instrumentales de la Edad Media. Fonoruz CDF 204.
*1996 - ''Dansse Real''. Las Piezas instrumentales del Chansonnier du Roi (h. 1300). Fonoruz CDF 270.
*1997 - ''Músicas de la España Mudéjar''. Artes instrumentales en la Baja Edad Media. Fonoruz CDF 357.
*1999 - ''Bel fiore dança''. Música Instrumental del Trecento (h. 1390). Fonoruz 611.
*2001 - ''Sones de Sefarad''. Músicas Judías en Antiguos Instrumentos. Fonoruz 908.
*2003 - ''... una danza a sonare''. Artes Instrumentales del Trecento. Fonoruz CDF 1337.
*2003 - ''Iban Tañendo''. Un recital de música mudéjar. Fonoruz CDF-1178
*2006 - ''Glosas nuevas sobre viejas danzas''. Tañidos de fama en los Siglos de Oro. Fonoruz CDF-1803
*2008 - ''Sones de palacio, bailes de comedias''. Gallardas, jotas, jácaras, seguidillas y fandangos con otros sones del Barroco hispánico. Fonoruz CDF-2117
See also
*
List of early music ensembles
An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier – broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are adv ...
External links
*Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/20180329141709/http://cincosiglos.es/
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Early music orchestras
Musical groups established in 1990