Cantigas de Santa Maria  /  Igor Pomykalo








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Igor Pomykalo

2017
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Cantigas de Santa Maria are religious songs, written in Spain in the 13 century - on the order of the king Alfonso El Sabio.
I decided to arrange them in the various popular styles of our time: blues, pop, rock and world music.



This project is devoted to my niece GIULIANA GERINI





1. Intro 1, CSM 42 “A Virgen mui groriosa”  IP med. fiddle solo  [1:31]   CSM  42

2. CSM 42 “A Virgen mui groriosa” and 353 “Quen a omagen”  [3:10]   CSM  42   CSM  353

3. CSM 11 “Macar óme per folía”  [2:30]   CSM  11

4. CSM 165 “Nïún poder deste mundo” and 208 “Aquele que ena Virgen”  [4:15]   CSM  165   CSM  208

5. CSM 166 “Como póden per sas culpas”  [2:59]   CSM  166

6. CSM 25 “Pagar ben pód'” and 100 “Santa María, Strela do día”  [3:06]   CSM  25   CSM  100

7. CSM 303 “Por fól tenno” and 340 “Virgen Madre grorïosa”  [4:05]   CSM  303   CSM  340

8. CSM 139 “Maravillosos e piadosos”  [2:22]   CSM  139

9. CSM 209 “Muito faz grand' érro” and 33 “Gran poder á de mandar”  [2:59]   CSM  209   CSM  33

10. CSM 54 “Toda saúde da Santa Reínna” and 215 “Con gran razôn”  [3:24]   CSM  54   CSM  215

11. CSM 58 “De muitas guisas” and 119 “Como somos per conssello”  [3:15]   CSM  58   CSM  119

12. CSM 37 “Miragres fremosos” and 79 “Ai, Santa María”  [2:58]   CSM  37   CSM  79

13. Intro 2, CSM 30 “Muito valvéra mais” I.P. medieval fiddle  [1:40]   CSM  30

14. CSM 30 “Muito valvéra mais” and 70 “Eno nome de Maria”  [5:02]   CSM  30   CSM  70

15. CSM 229 “Razôn é grand'” and 322 “A Virgen, que de Déus”  [2:56]   CSM  229   CSM  322

16. CSM 60 “Entre Av' e Éva” and 178 “A que faz o óme mórto”  [2:36]   CSM  60   CSM  178

17. CSM 389 “A que pera paraíso” and 270 “Todos con alegría”  [2:46]   CSM  389   CSM  270

18. CSM 117 “Toda cousa que aa Virgen” and 137 “Sempr' acha S. María”  [3:40]   CSM  117   CSM  137

19. CSM 12 “O que a Santa María mais despraz”  [4:24]   CSM  12

20. Intro 3, CSM 370 “Loemos muit' a Virgen S. María” I.P. m. fiddle  [1:16]   CSM  370

21. CSM 370 “Loemos muit' a Virgen Santa María”  [2:04]   CSM  370

22. CSM 94 “De vergonna nos guardar” (JazzyBallad)  [2:29]   CSM  94



Igor Pomykalo:
arrangements, programming, mixing and mastering;
playing keyboard, medieval fiddle (all Intros, tracks 8 and 18), electric violin (tr. 2, 3, 5, 11, 17) and electric cello (tr. 2 and 17).







Igor Pomykalo

Born 30th December 1946 in Rijeka (Croatia) in a family of musicians
1953 – 1965: school (incl. Music) in Zagreb. 1970 diploma in viola on the Academy of music
1966 – 1983: Violist in the „Symphony orchestra of Radio television Zagreb“(now: HRT)
1969 – 1983: founder and leader of the early music ensemble „Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis“, Zagreb, numerous concerts and recordings in the whole Europe
1974 – 1981: attending various seminars and grants in Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain and Holland
1983 – 2000: moving to Vienna, Austria; collaboration with „Clemencic Consort“ (until 2004)
1986 – 1997: working with his own „Ensemble Lyra Wien“
1988 – 2000: working at music store „Doblinger“, Vienna
1996 – 2001: scientific project „Lira da braccio and da gamba“at University of Music, Vienna
2000 – 2004: living in Cittadella (PD), Italy; collaboration with ensembles „Micrologus“, „Musica Ricercata“ and „Daedalus“; from 2004 on living in Piregg, Austria
1962 – 2005: public concerts (rock, chamber and orchestral music; medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music; traditional folk and so called world music): concerts, lectures and recordings (20 LPs and CDs) and tours in whole Europe and Israel; research in New York
since 2008 studying on various „online“ seminars of „Home recording”
December 2010 – May 2015 living partly in Piregg and partly in Italy (Cittadella –PD and Collecchio-PR).
From May 2015 living again permanently in Piregg, Austria.