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Heroines of Love & Loss / Hughes, Brinkmann, Nordberg
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Details
- Composer
- CACCINI KAPSBERGER PURCELL
- Artist
- Hughes, Brinkmann, Nordberg
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- BIS
- Released
- Mar 03, 2017
- Catalog #
- BIS-2248
- UPC
- 7318599922485
About
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.
Tracklist 16 tracks
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1 Toccata Arpeggiata 02:31
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Toccata Arpeggiata
- Duration
- 02:31
- Composer
- Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
- Performer
- Jonas Nordberg
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2 Bonduca, Z. 574, "The British Heroine": No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom 03:53
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Bonduca, Z. 574, "The British Heroine": No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom
- Duration
- 03:53
- Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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3 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: I. Prelude: Largo 04:01
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: I. Prelude: Largo
- Duration
- 04:01
- Composer
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer
- Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg
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4 Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes 03:15
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes
- Duration
- 03:15
- Composer
- John Bennet
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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5 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: II. Allemande: Andante 03:40
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 14, No. 9, RV 42: II. Allemande: Andante
- Duration
- 03:40
- Composer
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer
- Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg
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6 Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: No. 14. L'eraclito amoroso 07:21
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: No. 14. L'eraclito amoroso
- Duration
- 07:21
- Composer
- Barbara Strozzi
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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7 Chaconne 02:44
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Chaconne
- Duration
- 02:44
- Composer
- Alessandro Piccinini
- Performer
- Jonas Nordberg
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8 Occhi io vissi di voi 02:03
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Occhi io vissi di voi
- Duration
- 02:03
- Composer
- Claudia Sessa
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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9 The Willow Song 03:14
- Track
- 9
- Title
- The Willow Song
- Duration
- 03:14
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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10 Il primo libro delle musiche: No. 3. Lasciatemi qui solo 07:20
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Il primo libro delle musiche: No. 3. Lasciatemi qui solo
- Duration
- 07:20
- Composer
- Francesca Caccini
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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11 Diporti di Euterpe, Op. 7: No. 4. Lamento 07:49
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Diporti di Euterpe, Op. 7: No. 4. Lamento
- Duration
- 07:49
- Composer
- Barbara Strozzi
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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12 III. Sarabande: Largo 04:36
- Track
- 12
- Title
- III. Sarabande: Largo
- Duration
- 04:36
- Composer
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer
- Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg
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13 IV. Gigue: Allegro 03:21
- Track
- 13
- Title
- IV. Gigue: Allegro
- Duration
- 03:21
- Composer
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer
- Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Jonas Nordberg
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14 Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium 03:18
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium
- Duration
- 03:18
- Composer
- Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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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) 04:56
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth, "Dido's Lament" (arr. for voice, archlute and cello)
- Duration
- 04:56
- Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
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16 O Death Rock Me Asleep 05:00
- Track
- 16
- Title
- O Death Rock Me Asleep
- Duration
- 05:00
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Performer
- Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann