Heroines of Love & Loss / Hughes, Brinkmann, Nordberg

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March 3, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CACCINI KAPSBERGER PURCELL
    • PERFORMER
      Hughes, Brinkmann, Nordberg
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 03, 2017
    • UPC
      7318599922485
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2248
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata Arpeggiata

      Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

      Performer: Jonas Nordberg

    2. Bonduca, Z. 574, "The British Heroine": No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    3. Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: I. Prelude: Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg

    4. Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes

      Composer: John Bennet

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    5. Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: II. Allemande: Andante

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg

    6. Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: No. 14. L'eraclito amoroso

      Composer: Barbara Strozzi

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    7. Chaconne

      Composer: Alessandro Piccinini

      Performer: Jonas Nordberg

    8. Occhi io vissi di voi

      Composer: Claudia Sessa

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    9. The Willow Song

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    10. Il primo libro delle musiche: No. 3. Lasciatemi qui solo

      Composer: Francesca Caccini

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    11. Diporti di Euterpe, Op. 7: No. 4. Lamento

      Composer: Barbara Strozzi

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    12. III. Sarabande: Largo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg

    13. IV. Gigue: Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg

    14. Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium

      Composer: Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    15. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth, "Dido's Lament" (arr. for voice, archlute and cello)

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

    16. O Death Rock Me Asleep

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann




The women appearing before our ears throughout this program 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 teh 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 reveals in the dramatic and expressive potential offered by this trio combination, and by the music by these female composers and their English colleagues Henry Purcell and John Bennet.