Scintillate Amicae Stellae / Cappella Artemisia

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Label
Tactus
Release Date
January 1, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ANONYMOUS ASSANDRA, CATERINA
    • PERFORMER
      Candace, Cappella Artemisia, Smith
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 2011
    • UPC
      8007194105100
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TC280003
    • LABEL
      Tactus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Messa, salmi intieri e spezzati, Op. 2: Puer natus

      Composer: Francesco Rognoni Taeggio

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    2. Sacrarum cantionum, Book 1: O Maria, "In Nativitate Iesu Christi Dialogismus"

      Composer: Agostino Soderini

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    3. Motetti a voce sola: Scintillate amicae stellae

      Composer: Rosa Giacinta Badalla

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    4. Noe noe

      Composer: Domenico Massenzio

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    5. Magi videntes stellam

      Composer: Domenico Massenzio

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    6. Concerti sacri, Op. 2: Ecce annuntio vobis

      Composer: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    7. Motetti, Op. 2: Hodie Christus

      Composer: Caterina Assandra

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    8. Hodie nobis caelorum rex [Nativitas Domini, da Antiphonarium Romanum, Venezia 1606]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    9. Motectorum, Book 1: Hodie Christus natus est

      Composer: Andrea Rota

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    10. Sacri cantus, Book 2: Quem vidistis pastores?

      Composer: Tiburzio Massaino

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    11. Fiorita corona di melodia celeste, Op. 7: Silentium

      Composer: Sisto Reina

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    12. Philomela angelica cantionum sacrarum, "Res Plena Dei": No. 5. O praeclara dies

      Composer: Daniel Speer

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    13. Arie di musica: O Maria che giubilante partoristi

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Strata

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    14. Il terzo libro de sacri concenti: Natus est Iesus

      Composer: Gasparo Casati

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    15. Sacri concerti de motetti a 1,2,3 e 4 voci: Ad gaudia, ad iubila

      Composer: Maria Xaveria Perucona

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith

    16. Motetti con le litanie della Beata Vergine, Op. 10: Gloria in excelsis Deo

      Composer: Isabella Leonarda

      Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia

      Conductor: Candace Smith


The feast of the Nativity held a special place in the hearts and lives of Italian nuns. In a letter to archbishop Federigo Borromeo, a Milanesenun thanked him for his gift of a lute which “has cheered all of the nuns with me, [...] and thus on the night of Holy Christmaswe went to play Matins to all the nuns, singing Gloria in excelsis [...]”. This recording presents works composed by and for these women that might have been heard or performed at Christmastime, andthey call for a great variety of forces ranging from solo voices to double choirs of both singers and instruments. The nun composers represented include the Ursulines Maria Xaveria Perucona and Isabella Leonarda, author of 20 collectionsof vocal and instrumental music; Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and her conventual sister Rosa Giacinta Badalla from the renownedMilanese convent of Santa Radegonda; and Caterina Assandra, composer and dedicatee of various collections. The CD also featuresworks by eminent male composers (Massenzio, Rota, Reina, Speer et al.) and dedicated to these remarkable cloistered musicians.