Thibaut de Navarre - Gregorio Paniagua LP, Harmonia Mundi HM 1016, AS List
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Thibaut de Navarre LP Gregorio Paniagua, Atrium Musicae de Madrid Harmonia Mundi, France, 1979
**Arthur Salvatore List DEMI-GOD**
pristine vinyl and beautiful gatefold jacket.
vinyl will be packed outside jacket for safe shipping.
Salvatore's comments: "Thibaut (1201-1253), was both the King of Navarre (now a Basque province that was an independent kingdom during the Middle Ages), and a "trouvere", a lyric poet/musician of Northern France, at around the time of the Crusades. Accordingly, these compositions have a strong Middle Eastern or Moorish flavor, and there are no vocalists.
The sonics of this LP are in the league of the finest from Harmonia Mundi. There is outstanding transparency and immediacy. The performance space is well reproduced and there is superb outer and inner detail. The sound-floor is very low and the dynamic qualities are intense and lifelike. It also has the "alive" quality, which you sense immediately.
This record is rarer than any of the other top Harmonia Mundi LPs that I have listed. I don't know why, but maybe it wasn't a big seller. In fact, I have only seen a few copies of it during years of searching. However, this is the only recording of this music, and, worse, Harmonia Mundi has not yet come out with a CD reissue of it. Thus, there will be a continual demand for it from at least two groups."
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