While recreating this music, which dominated Granada from the eighth century until the fall of the Caliphate in January 1492, Atrium Musicae de Madrid steeped themselves in the atmosphere that still reigns in the Alcazar, the Alhambra, and the mosque of Córdoba. For these musicians, it evokes the love of life and the taste for beauty that pervaded Arab-Andalusian everyday life. This recording, from October 1976, which has never left the catalogue, continues to transport us into the world of the nawbas, the highly elaborate musical sequences typical of Al-Andalus.
While recreating this music, which dominated Granada from the eighth century until the fall of the Caliphate in January 1492, Atrium Musicae de Madrid steeped themselves in the atmosphere that still reigns in the Alcazar, the Alhambra, and the mosque of Córdoba. For these musicians, it evokes the love of life and the taste for beauty that pervaded Arab-Andalusian everyday life. This recording, from October 1976, which has never left the catalogue, continues to transport us into the world of the nawbas, the highly elaborate musical sequences typical of Al-Andalus.
