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Heroines of Love and Loss
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Heroines of Love and Loss
Composers
Anonymous
Bennet, John
Caccini, Francesca
Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo
Piccinini, Alessandro
Purcell, Henry
Sessa, Claudia
Strozzi, Barbara
Vivaldi, Antonio
Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina
Performers
Hughes, Ruby
Nordberg, Jonas
Yamahiro Brinkmann, Mime
Instruments
Archlute
Cello
Lute
Theorbo
Voice
Periods
Early Music
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-2248 SACD
Release date
2017-02-10
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
96000 Hz
Total time
71:28
"the striking feature of the disc is the array of powerful pieces by ltalian women composers",
Gramophone
Diapason d'Or
The women appearing before our ears throughout this programme range from the Virgin Mary and Dido, queen of Carthage, to Shakespeare’s Desdemona and the unfortunate Anne Boleyn, waiting for her execution in the Tower of London in 1536. But the disc also features four other heroines – the Italian composers Claudia Sessa, Francesca Caccini, Lucrezia Vizzana and Barbara Strozzi. All active between 1590 – 1675, they will have required great courage to rise above the social conventions of the time, but this surprisingly productive period for female composers also offered an opportunity that would disappear in later centuries: the all-female environment provided by the convent. More than half of the women who published music before 1700 were nuns, including Sessa and Vizzana, who are here represented by brief meditations on the suffering and death of Christ. Caccini and Strozzi, on the other hand, lived very much in the secular world – Caccini at the Florentine court and Strozzi as a free-lance musician and composer in Venice. Unhindered by the restrictions imposed by the church on sacred music they both adhered to the new stile moderno championed by Claudio Monteverdi. Celebrated for their singing, they composed vocal music which makes ‘the words the mistress of the harmony and not the servant’, to quote Monteverdi’s brother Giulio Cesare. The soprano Ruby Hughes has already made her name for herself in a wide-ranging repertoire, but has a special love for the constellation of lute, cello and voice. With Jonas Nordberg and Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann – who also contribute instrumental solos – she here revels in the dramatic and expressive potential offered by the combination, and by the music by these female composers and their English colleagues Henry Purcell and John Bennet.
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Composer: Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo
01
Toccata arpeggiata
02:31
$ 0.64
USD
Composer: Purcell, Henry
02
Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom
03:53
$ 0.94
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Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio
Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42
15:38
03
I. Preludio
04:01
$ 0.98
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Composer: Bennet, John
04
Venus’ Birds
03:15
$ 0.80
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Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio
Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42
15:38
05
II. Allemanda
03:40
$ 0.89
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Composer: Strozzi, Barbara
06
L’Eraclito amoroso
07:21
$ 1.78
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Composer: Piccinini, Alessandro
07
Ciaccona
02:44
$ 0.68
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Composer: Sessa, Claudia
08
Occhi io vissi di voi
02:03
$ 0.50
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Composer: Anonymous
09
The Willow Song
03:14
$ 0.80
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Composer: Caccini, Francesca
10
Lasciatemi qui solo
07:20
$ 1.80
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Composer: Strozzi, Barbara
11
Lamento: Lagrime mie
07:49
$ 1.91
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Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio
Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42
15:38
12
III. Sarabanda
04:36
$ 1.11
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13
IV. Giga
03:21
$ 0.82
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Composer: Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina
O Magnum Mysterium
14
O magnum mysterium
03:18
$ 0.82
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Composer: Purcell, Henry
15
Dido’s Lament
04:56
$ 1.22
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Composer: Anonymous
16
O death, rock me asleep
05:00
$ 1.45
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Album total
71:28
Composer
Anonymous
Bennet, John
Caccini, Francesca
Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo
Piccinini, Alessandro
Purcell, Henry
Sessa, Claudia
Strozzi, Barbara
Vivaldi, Antonio
Vizzana, Lucrezia Orsina
Theorbo
Nordberg, Jonas
Soprano
Hughes, Ruby
Cello
Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
Yamahiro Brinkmann, Mime
Archlute
Nordberg, Jonas
Lute
Nordberg, Jonas
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