專輯類型: 1SACD 發行年份: 2017 國際條碼: 7318599922485 音樂廠牌: BIS 路比.修斯, 女高音 喬納斯諾德伯格 魯特琴 The women appearing before our ears throughout this programme 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 the 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 revels 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. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger 01 Toccata arpeggiata 2'39 Henry Purcell 02 Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom 3'56 Antonio Vivaldi Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42 15'50 03 I. Preludio 4'06 John Bennet 04 Venus' Birds 3'19 Antonio Vivaldi Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42 15'50 05 II. Allemanda 3'42 Barbara Strozzi 06 L'Eraclito amoroso 7'26 Alessandro Piccinini 07 Ciaccona 2'49 Claudia Sessa 08 Occhi io vissi di voi 2'06 Anonymous 09 The Willow Song 3'20 Francesca Caccini 10 Lasciatemi qui solo 7'29 Barbara Strozzi 11 Lamento: Lagrime mie 7'57 Antonio Vivaldi Cello sonata in G minor, RV 42 15'50 12 III. Sarabanda 4'38 13 IV. Giga 3'24 Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana O Magnum Mysterium 14 O magnum mysterium 3'24 Henry Purcell 15 Dido's Lament 5'04 Anonymous 16 O death, rock me asleep 6'02 Album total 71'28