Baroque Nun Composer
J. Burton | 03/22/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The vocal ensemble and period-instrument accompanists of Musica Secreta perform vocal works from Componimenti Musicali by the Italian nun and composer Lucrezia Vizzana (1590-1662).
"Vizzana's Componimenti musicali is a collection of devotional motets and spiritual love songs - some addressing Jesus in the quasi-erotic, perfumed language reminiscent of the Song of Songs, others in praise of music. Vizzana's vocal lines, with their surging ecstatic melismas and rhetorical gestures, are appropriately honeyed, and at its best this music could pass for Monteverdi or Barbara Strozzi. ... Musica Secreta specialises in the 'secret music' written by or for women in the 17th century. There is no doubt about the integrity and intelligence of its performances, and the sound of the ensemble's female voices is refined and exquisitely sweet" (BBC Music Magazine)
The works on this recording:
1. Filii Syon Exultate
2. Veni Dulcissime Domine
3. Paratum Cor Meum
4. Protector Noster
5. Ave Stella Matutina
6. Usquequo Oblivisceris Me Infinem?
7. Domine, Quid Multiplicati Sunt
8. Praebe Mihi
9. O Invictissima Christi Martyr
10. Sonet Vox Tua
11. Omnes Gentes, Cantate Domino
12. Confiteantur Tibi
13. Amo Christum, In Cuius Thalamum Introibo
14. O Si Sciret Stultus Mundus
15. Ornaverunt Faciem Templi Coronis Aureis
16. O Magnum Mysterium
17. Domine, Dominus Noster, Quam Admirabile
18. Domine, Ne In Furore
19. Exsurgat Deus Et Dissipentur
20. Omnes Gentes Plaudite Manibus
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