Nigra sum sed formosa

Nigra sum sed formosa
Il culto di Maria tra Monastero e Corte
Ensemble San Felice - Federico Bardazzi, dir.
Bongiovanni GB 5611-2

Contents:

    Anon.
  1. In Principio horarum: Deus, in adjutorium meum (Tonus solemnis)

    2. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  2. Cantiga 270: Todos con alegria cantand

    3. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  3. Cantiga 301: Macar faz Santa Maria miragres

    4. Anon.
  4. I. Antiphona: Dum esset rex in accubitu suo
    Psalmus 109: Dixit Dominus IIIa

    5. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  5. Cantiga 252: Tan gran poder

    6. Anon.
  6. II. Antiphona: Læva ejus sub capite meo
    Psalmus 112: Laudate pueri II-IVa

    7. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  7. Cantiga 241: Parade mentes ora

    8. Anon.
  8. III. Antiphona: Nigra sum sed formosa
    Psalmus 121: Laetatus sum IIIb

    9. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  9. Cantiga 272: Maravillosos miragres

    10. Anon.
  10. Muñeira de la Galiçia

    11. Anon.
  11. Canto de Beira Baixa: São João

    12. Anon.
  12. IV. Antiphona: Speciosa facta es
    Psalmus 126: Nisi Dominus IIa

    13. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  13. Cantiga 326: A Santa Maria muito ll' è greu

    14. Anon.
  14. Capitulum: Ab initio et ante saecula
    Responsorium breve: Ave Maria gratia plena (tonus solemnis VI)

    15. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  15. Cantiga 273: A Madre de Deus

    16. Anon.
  16. Hymnus: Ave Maris Stella (Tonus in Solemnitatibus I)

    17. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  17. Cantiga 247: Assi como Jhesocristo

    18. Anon.
  18. Versiculum: Dignare me, laudare me (Tonus Solemnis)
    Antiphona ad Magnificat: Beatam me dicent
    Magnificat VIIIG2 (Meditatio solemnis)

    19. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  19. Cantiga 310: Mutto per dev' a Reynna

    20. Anon.
  20. In Fine Horarum: Supplicatio litaniae "Kyrie Eleison"
    Oratio dominica "Pater Noster"
    Oratio "Concede nos famulos tuos" (tonus solemnis)
    Benedicamus Domino (In Festis B.M.V)

Playing time: 69' 02"

Performers:
Ensemble San Felice [Federico Bardazzi (voice, vielle), Roberto Bolelli (voice), Bruna Caruso (voice, Coro I), Raffaella Ceccarelli (voice, Coro II), Marco Di Manno (voice, flute), Luca Focardi (voice, Coro II), Gloria Moretti (voice, Coro II), Letizia Putignano (voice, Coro II), Elena Sartori (voice, positive organ, Coro I), Eleonora Tassinari (voice, symphonia, Coro I), Fabio Tricomi (voice, gothic harp, flauto da tamburo, gittern, tamburello, ud, viella, zarb), Stefania Vitale (voice, Coro I), Barbara Zanichelli (voice, Coro I), Adele Bardazzi (gothic harp), Giangiacomo Pignardi (gittern, setar, daf), Linda Severi (bombard, cialamello)] - Federico Bardazzi, dir.

Recording site and date:
Pieve di Sant'Alessandro a Giogoli. Scandicci - Florence, Italy [09/2000]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 25/3-82 (January/February 2002)
Goldberg (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD. It is noteworthy that all the released material appears to have been never released before, but two cantigas (CSM 252, 310) previously issued on two obscure labels never really distributed outside Spain.

Another recording by the present ensemble:

Frescobaldi: Messa sopra L'Aria di Fiorenza
Ensemble San Felice - Federico Bardazzi
Bongiovanni 5603

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Pierre-F. Roberge