Miguel Rincón - Los Libros de Laúd (2014) CD-Rip

The present CD is the first of an open series of disc recordings which we hope will be wide and diverse. I have named it Musical Footprints in the Biblioteca Colombina, Hernando Colon’s Library. Hernando Colon (1488-1539), second son to the discoverer Christopher Columbus, was educated in court, and first became a page to Prince John, and, after his death, to Queen Isabella between 1494 and 1502. There he must have developed his taste for music. Serve as proof of this the fact that in 1509 there were among his belongings “six notebooks to play which have fortyseven pages, without the blank [paper]..., six notebooks made of paper with songs, have seventy-four written leafs, without the white ones... brass strings for clavichord.” This must have been a constant pastime throughout his life and it fits his profile of renaissance courtier to perfection. In an inventory list of his belongings made after his death the following item appear: “a cover (paper) which says music for vihuela, clavichord..., romances for singing and playing..., a Hapsichord...”. For all this we can consider him a dilettante musician.