The Art of the Cigar
2011 | Sony Music | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
CD info
Passionate cigar smoker and conductor Paul Van Nevel selected charming compositions that are brief sketches of the luxurious world of the cigar between the 16th and 20th century. They are superbly interpreted with a hint of irony and humour by the Huelgas Ensemble, and evoke the timeless pleasure and relaxing atmosphere that cigar lovers all over the world still treasure to this day...
Tracks
The Bristol tune book (1876) : Tobacco is a dirty weed
Juan Blas de Castri (ca.1561-1631) : Como el humo del cigarro
Michael East (ca.1580-1648) : O Metaphysical tobacco
Carl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1808-1872) : Louange de la Havane
José Peyro (1702-1768) : De Vuelta Abajo o de Oriente
Charles Wesley (1793-1859) : My last cigar
Pedro Riquet (17th century) : La guajirita de Vuelta Abajo
Augustus Edmonds Tozer (1857-1910) : Das Zigarrenlied
W. Augustus Barrat (1864-1928) : So I have my cigar!
H. Lazerges (1817-1887) : Eloge du tabac
Paul Lebrun (1863-1920) : To a segar
Solage (floruit ca.1400) from codex Chantilly : Fumeux fume par fumée
Daniel Towner (1850-1919) : Open the old cigar-box
TobaccTobias hume (ca.1569-1645) : o, tobacco, sing sweetly for tobacco
E.C. Walker (1820-1894) : I like cigars beneath the stars
Anonymus (Spain ca.1520) : Elogio
