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Building a Library compares recordings of the 'Ensaladas' of the early sixteenth-century Mateo Flecha, written for the diversion of courtiers. A captivating mixture of popular song, madrigal and liturgical music Flecha's lively Ensaladas have in recent years attracted a range of performance styles, from one voice to a part to recordings with full choir and instruments.

Top recommendation:

Las Ensaladas- Spanish Songs of the 16th Century

PERE ALBERCH VILA: El Bon jorn; La Lucha

MATEU FLETXA: El Fuego; La Bomba

BARTOMEU CARCERES: La Trulla

La Colombina

K617 k617216

Other recordings:

Below is a shortlist of other recordings which Tess Knighton also liked, although we can鈥檛 guarantee the availability of these discs.

Canciones y Ensaladas: Songs and Instrumental Pieces of the Spanish Golden Age

ENRIQUE DE VALDERRABANO: Contrapunto sobre el tenor del conde claros

JUAN VASQUEZ: Ojos morenos; Que yo, mi madre, yo; Mi mal de causa es; Gentil senora mia; Agora que se de amor; El que sin ti bivir, ya no querria; Lagrimas de mi consuelo

JUAN BRUDIEU: En los mon pus sou dotada del set goigs

MATEO FLECHA: La Bomba; La Guerra

ALONSO MUDARRA: Fantasia del quarto tono; Cavallero, queraysme dexar; Fantasia del quinto tono; Fantasia del primer tono

Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominique Visse (director)

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901627

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