La Cité des Dames
Book + 2 CD

Women and music in Middle Ages. La Cité des Dames collected female authorship, responsible for liturgical music, paraliturgical or secular, vocal and instrumental. Some are better known: Kassia, Hildegard of Bingen, Landsberg Herrada, Beatriz de Día. Other, less, as Héloïse, Margaret of Austria and Anne Boleyn, with special attention to Hispanic composers: Blanche of Castile and Gracia Baptista, without forgetting repertoires, as the city of Cristina de Pizan, writted by and for women.

24,90  IVA incl.

Description

CDM 1333

Texts: Josemi Lorenzo Isabel Morant Nuria Ruiz de Viñaspre

Sound engeneering, mixing, and edition: Jorge García Bastidas (dbc estudios)

Cover: “Queen and ladies”. Manuscrito Harley 4431

Graphic Design: Annabel Calatayud

DDD: 50’37” + 52’47” Legal deposit: V-1837-2013 ISBN: 978-84-616-5451-2

The research and edition of this recording is sponsored by the “Diputació de València” www.dival.es

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Pilar Esteban, soprano
Elisa Franzetti, soprano

Carles Magraner, viola, viella, rabel
David Antich, flautas y aulos
Juan Manuel Rubio, zanfoña/arpa/úd/salterio
Ignasi Jordà, exequier/clave
Pau Ballester, percusiones, tintinabulum

Collaboration:

Mara Aranda, voz
Ruth González i Queralt, Amparo Maiques, Carla Mayer (sopranos) y Adriana García (mezzosoprano)
Jota Martínez, cítara
Spyros Kaniaris, lira griega

CD 1: Hortus conclusus

Las Huelgas (s.xiv) Mulierum
Hildegarda de Bingen (1098-1179) Ave generosa
Herrada de Landsberg (1130-1195) Sol oritur occasus
Clarisas de Valencia (s.xiv) Gaude flori virginali
Eloísa (1101-1164) Rex in accubitum
Codex Bamberg Virgo Virginum
Gracia Baptista (1557) Conditor alme siderum
Kassia (s.ix) La mujer caída
Abadia de Fleury (s.XII) Visitatio Sepulchri

CD 2: Viridarium – jardín de nobles doncellas

Beatriz de Dia (c.1140-1175) A chantar m’er de so
Blanca de Castilla (1188-1252) Amours, u trop tart me sui pris Anónima (s.XIII) S’on me regarde
Maroie de Dregnau (s.XII) Mout m’abellist
Carmina Burana (s.XIII) Under der lindenan
Ana Bolena (Atr. s. XVI) O Deathe, rock me asleepe
Cristina de Pizan (c.1400-1460) Dueil angoisseus
Florencia Pinar (s.XV) Tanto más creçe el querer
Margarita de Austria (1506) Triste suis
Constanza de Aragón (s. XIV) Ez yeu am tal que’s bo e belh Tradicional de Alicante (s.XVI) Mareta

Additional information

Weight 400 g