Cinco Siglos is a musical ensemble devoted to the early music

Early music

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

. It was founded in Córdoba (Spain) in 1990 by Antonio Torralba and by its musical director Miguel Hidalgo Fernández. Cinco Siglos is focused on the instrumental repertoires from the Middle Age

Medieval music

Medieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century...

, the Renaissance

Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance. Defining the beginning of the musical era is difficult, given that its defining characteristics were adopted only gradually; musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s.Literally meaning...

 and the Baroque

Baroque music

Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...

 periods, with preference on those that combine the cultivated and popular styles.

The members of the ensemble are: Miguel Hidalgo (historical plucked strings

Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such as way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate...

 and musical direction), Antonio Torralba (flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

s), Gabriel Arellano (historical violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

s), José Ignacio Fernández (historical plucked strings

Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such as way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate...

), Daniel Sáez (historical plucked strings

Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such as way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate...

 and Baroque cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

) and Antonio Sáez (percussion

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

).

Discography

• 1995 - Unos tan dulces sones. Usos instrumentales de la Edad Media. Fonoruz CDF 204.
• 1996 - Dansse Real. Las Piezas instrumentales del Chansonnier du Roi (h. 1300). Fonoruz CDF 270.
• 1997 - Músicas de la España Mudéjar. Artes instrumentales en la Baja Edad Media. Fonoruz CDF 357.
• 1999 - Bel fiore dança. Música Instrumental del Trecento (h. 1390). Fonoruz 611.
• 2001 - Sones de Sefarad. Músicas Judías en Antiguos Instrumentos. Fonoruz 908.
• 2003 - ... una danza a sonare. Artes Instrumentales del Trecento. Fonoruz CDF 1337.
• 2003 - Iban Tañendo. Un recital de música mudéjar. Fonoruz CDF-1178
• 2006 - Glosas nuevas sobre viejas danzas. Tañidos de fama en los Siglos de Oro. Fonoruz CDF-1803
• 2008 - Sones de palacio, bailes de comedias. Gallardas, jotas, jácaras, seguidillas y fandangos con otros sones del Barroco hispánico. Fonoruz CDF-2117