Madre de Deus

Madre de Deus
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Micrologus
Opus 111 OPS 30-225

Contents:

    Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  1. Cantiga 4: A Madre do que livrou (flute, vielle, harp, guitar)
  2. Cantiga 330: Qual é santivigada - aka, "Madre de Deus, Nostro Sennor" (voice, guitar, pipe & tabor, choir)
  3. Cantiga 422: Madre de Deus (voice, choir, guitar)
  4. Cantiga 406: Ben vennas, Mayo (bagpipe, trumpet, percussion)
  5. Cantiga 421: Nenbre-sse-te, Madre (2 voices)
  6. Cantiga 160: Quen bõa dona querrá (voice, choir)
  7. Cantiga 378: Muito nos faz gran merçee (shawm, bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, percussion)
  8. Cantiga 403: Aver non poderia (voice, hurdy-gurdy)
  9. Cantiga 323: Ontre toda-las vertudes (flute, rebec, 'ud, harp, percussion)
  10. Cantiga 10: Rosa das rosas (voice, hurdy-gurdy, guitar)
  11. Cantiga 328: Sabor á Santa Maria (pipe & tabor, guitar, percussion)
  12. Cantiga 279: Santa Maria valed' (voice, choir, hurdy-gurdy)
  13. Cantiga 120: Quantos me creveren loarán (voice, choir)
  14. Cantiga 138: Quen á Santa Maria (hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe, 2 trumpets, percussion)
    Cantiga 308: De todo mal (hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe, 2 trumpets, percussion)
    Cantiga 120: Quantos me creveren (hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe, 2 trumpets, percussion)
  15. Cantiga 29: Nas mentes senpre teer (voice, choir, hurdy-gurdy, pipe & tabor, bagpipe, guitar, percussion)

Playing time: 62' 57"

Performers: Micrologus [Patrizia Bovi (voice, harp), Adolfo Broegg (oud, spanish guitar, moorish guitar), Goffredo Degli Esposti (transverse flute, three-holed flute, drum, gaita (galician bagpipe) mezued (arabic bagpipe), shawm), Gabriele Russo (fiddle, rebec, gaita), Alessandro Quarta (voice), Ulrich Pfeifer (hurdy-gurdy, voice), Luigi Germini (slide trumpet), Gabriele Miracle (darbouka, nakers, castanets), Mauro Morini (slide trumpet), Francesco Speziali (riqq, nakers)], & Choir (Alberto Berettini, Francesca Breschi, Barbara Bucci, Flaviana Rossi, Claudia Mortali, Laura Scipioni)].

Recording place and date: San Pietro e Paolo, Ceralto, Italy [12/1997]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 458-128 (april 1999)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 77/918-92 (september 1999)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 22/4-136 (march/april 1999)

This ensemble's previous recording from the Cantigas:

Cantigas de Santa Maria
Ensemble Micrologus
Quadrivium 014

And another program from this era:

In Festa
Calendimaggio di Assisi
Ensemble Micrologus
Micrologus Editions 0001

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Pierre-F. Roberge