Principally selections from the Cantigas de Santa María in vocal and instrumental settings; the Latin songs are from the Huelgas codex.
Sung in the Galician dialect (Cantigas) and Latin.
Subtitle on container: Gallician and Latin sacred songs from 13th- century Spain.
Performed in varying combinations of soprano, instrumental ensemble (medieval harp, recorders, psaltery, vielle, rebec, lyre, percussion), and chorus.
Compact disc.
Program notes in English by Thomas Binkley and texts with English translations (27 p.) inserted in container.
Recorded at Lone Mountain Chapel, University of San Francisco, Ignatian Heights.
Quen a Virgen ben servirá (Cantiga de Santa Maria no. 103) (5:26) -- Fontis in rivulum (3:21) -- Connosçudamente mostra miragres (Cantiga no. 333) (3:45) -- Alavanca de Mudanza (instrumental suite based on melodies from the Cantigas) (11:47) -- Toda cousa que aa Virgen (Cantiga no. 117) (5:44) -- Gran dereit' (Cantiga no. 34) (8:04) -- Ad honorem salvatoris (6:31) -- A Virgen mui grorïosa (Cantiga no. 42) (14:35)