This special release of vihuela music from renaissance Spain includes little known music by Enri?quez de Valderrabano (Silva de sirenas, 1547) and Miguel de Fuenllana (Orphenica lyra, 1554) together with renowned works by Narvaez and Mudarra. The performer needs to achieve a sublime level of introspective delicacy, bringing out the music's delicate polyphonic interplay and glorious singing melodies, and capturing the essence of renaissance sensibility. One of today's most renowned scholar-performers, John Griffiths plays a vihuela embodying the most recent historical research.
