A los banos del amor - Anonymous - CMP
Dime triste coraçón - Francisco de la Torre (fl. 1483–1504) - CMC
Ojos, mis ojos - Anonymous - CMP
En Ávila mis ojos - Anonymous - CMP
Melancolía - Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel (2020)
Una montana pasando - Garcimunoz - CMP
Serranica:
Olalla Alemán
Allá se me ponga el sol - Juan Ponce (c. 1476 - after 1520) - CMP
Dentro en el vergel a 3 - Anonymous - CMP
Muchos van de amor heridos - Anonymous - CMP
No queriendo sois querida - Moxica (fl. late 15th century) - CMP
Ojos morenicos - Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465 - after 1535) - CMP
Dentro en el vergel a 4 - Anonymous - CMP
Cómo está sola mi vida - Juan Ponce (c. 1476 - after 1520) - CMP
O desdichado de mi - Garci Sánchez de Badajoz (c. 1460 - after 1524) - CMP
Distopía - Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel (2020)
Muy triste será mi vida - Johannes Urrede (fl. 1451– c 1482) - CMP
El Canto de la Sibila “Versus Sybille prophete” - Anonymous - Cuenca, 15th c. - SDS-CMP-CMC-T25

CMP - Cancionero Musical de Palacio (c. 1500)
CMC - Cancionero Musical de la Colombina (before 1500)
SDS - Santo Domingo de Silos
T25 - Toledo Catedral, Códice 25

Música Temprana, one of today’s most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic liturgical tradition of El Canto de la Sibila. Many of the villancicos, canciones, romances and estrambotes performed here have been documented in songbooks such as the famous Cancionero Musical de Palacio. They show the transition from troubadour lyricism to the flourishing Siglo de Oro (Golden Age), and the shift from a medieval to a Renaissance aesthetic in Spanish music. El Canto de la Sibila is a religious tradition that can be traced back as far as St Augustine, who put his contemplation on the end of times into the mouth of a pagan prophetess from Graeco-Roman mythology. Música Temprana’s interpretation revives religious practices in 15th-century Cuenca. Altogether, the works performed on this album underline the strong melancholic connections between worldly and religious Spanish musical traditions around 1500, a period full of change and conflict, during which Christian Europe feared the hypothetical end of the world. The extraordinary beauty of these austere works offers solace for our troubled times as well.

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This album was recorded at the Pieterskerk Utrecht, the Netherlands, 14-17 October 2020.