Insula Feminarum

Insula Feminarum
Résonances médiévales de la Féminité Celte
La Reverdie
Arcana A 59 [CD]
Arcana A 311 [CD]

Contents:

    Serca (Amores) «Ysot ma drue, Ysot m'amie en vus ma mort, en vus ma vie»

    Anon., England, early 15th c., Cambridge, University Lib., MS Add 5943:
  1. Wyth right al my hert
  2. Tir na mBan (instr. Version by Elisabetta de Mircovich)

    3. Anon., France, 13th c., Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 546:
  3. Se Geneive, Tristan

    4. Anon., Italy, early 15th c., Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS:
  4. Lamento di Tristano & Rotta

    5. Anon., instr. variations by Doron David Sherwin:
  5. Tre Fontane

    6. Banflaith (Regalitas) «Rex est pax populorum, cura languorum, temperies aeris, serenitas maris, terre fecunditas»

    Anon., England, early 14th c.:
  6. Deus tuorum militum / Deflore martyrum / Ave Rex:

    7. Anon., England, early 14th c., Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS e Mus. 7:
  7. Ave miles celestis curie / Ave Rex patrone patrie / Ave Rex

    8. Anon.of Orkneys, 12th c., Uppsala, University Lib., Codex 223:
  8. Nobilis humilis Magne martir

    9. Frankes, early 15th c., instr. version by Doron David Sherwin, Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS Ashmole 191:
  9. Quene Note

    10. Echtrai (Casus) «Ni raba-sa riam cen fer ar scath araille ocum» (Tain Bó Cuaílnge, 9th c.)

    Jacopo da Bologna, Firenze, Bibl. Naz., MS Panciatichi:
  10. Di novo è giunto un chavalier

    11. Anon., France, 13th c., Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine, H 196:
  11. S'on me regarde / Prenés i garde / Hé mi enfant

    12. Donato da Firenze, Bibl. Naz., MS Panciatichi:
  12. Seguendo 'l canto d'un uccel

    13. Giovanni da Firenze:
  13. Nel boscho senza foglie

    14. Físi (Visione) «I saw a swete semly syght a blisful birde a blossom bright that murnyng made & mirth of-mange» (Anon., England, 14th c.)

    Anon., Italy, early 15th c., Faenza, Bibl. Comunale, Codex 117:
  14. Ave Maris Stella

    15. San Godric di Finchale, British Museum Lib., MS Royal 5F:
  15. Crist & Sainte Marie
  16. Sainte Marie Viergene

    17. Anon., Rhein region, 13th c., Bamberg, Staatbibl., MS Lit. 115:
  17. Prima cedit femina / Mulierum hodie / Mulierum

    18. Oswald von Wolkenstein, Innsbruck, Wolkensteinhanschrift B:
  18. Ave mutter kuniginne / Ave mater

Playing time: 64' 15"

Performers:
La Reverdie [Claudia Caffagni (voice, luth), Livia Caffagni (voice, recorders, medieval fiddle, symphonia), Elisabetta de' Mircovich (voice, medieval fiddle, rebec, symphonia), Ella de' Mircovich (voice, gothic harp, romane harp), Doron David Sherwin (voice, cornett, percussions, bells), Claudio Pasetto (medieval fiddle)]

Recording site and date:
Monastery of Corno di Rosazzo (Udine), Italy [03/1997], rel. 1997 (A 39), 2001 (A 311)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 444-104 (jan. 1998)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
The interpretation is superb; this CD received a Diapason d'Or in january issue of Dapason and a 10 in the french music periodical Répertoire.

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Pierre-F. Roberge