Album lore

Montserrat Figueras’s The Voice of Emotion, issued by Alia Vox in 2012, assembles a broad swathe of early music repertoire alongside threads of traditional and contemporary forms. The 36 tracks span Renaissance, medieval, and baroque compositions, including pieces by Giulio Caccini and selections such as “Medea - Invocation” and “Salve regina à 8.” Figueras’s voice, long esteemed for its purity and expressive clarity, navigates five-voice choral arrangements and solo laments alike, conjuring the delicate balance of historical performance practice.The album’s reach extends beyond strict early music, touching on musiques concrètes and electroacoustic inflections, while also nodding to son jarocho and other vernacular traditions. This confluence situates The Voice of Emotion as both a document and an artifact, inviting the listener to hear echoes across centuries and styles. The featured “Tono Humano: Trompicávalas Amor” exemplifies this blend, melding old-world lyricism with contemporary sensibility, a hallmark of Figueras’s singular canon.

Album lore

Montserrat Figueras’s The Voice of Emotion, issued by Alia Vox in 2012, assembles a broad swathe of early music repertoire alongside threads of traditional and contemporary forms. The 36 tracks span Renaissance, medieval, and baroque compositions, including pieces by Giulio Caccini and selections such as “Medea - Invocation” and “Salve regina à 8.” Figueras’s voice, long esteemed for its purity and expressive clarity, navigates five-voice choral arrangements and solo laments alike, conjuring the delicate balance of historical performance practice.The album’s reach extends beyond strict early music, touching on musiques concrètes and electroacoustic inflections, while also nodding to son jarocho and other vernacular traditions. This confluence situates The Voice of Emotion as both a document and an artifact, inviting the listener to hear echoes across centuries and styles. The featured “Tono Humano: Trompicávalas Amor” exemplifies this blend, melding old-world lyricism with contemporary sensibility, a hallmark of Figueras’s singular canon.