Fallen Women

Fallen Women
Women as Composers and Performers of Medieval Chant
Arab-Byzantine Chant
Sarband
Jaro 4210-2
Dorian 93235

Contents:

    Traditional
  1. Alyâwm

    2. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  2. Alleluia - Victimae pascali laudes

    3. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
  3. O magne pater

    4. Costantinople, 14th century
  4. Alleluia

    5. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  5. Benedicamus virgini matri

    6. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  6. Catholicorum concio

    7. Kassia, Athens, 9th century
  7. Augustus

    8. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  8. Rex virginum amator

    9. Trad., Greece
  9. Kyrie eleyson

    10. Trad., Byzantine
  10. Inna Moussa

    11. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  11. Salve regina glorie

    12. Hildegard von Bingen
  12. O plangens vox

    13. Kassia, Athens
  13. Kyrie (The Fallen Woman)

    14. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  14. Mundi dolens de iactura

    15. Trad., Byzantine
  15. Ya Rabbi

    16. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  16. Psallat chorus / Eximie pater / Aptatur

    17. Hildegard von Bingen
  17. Rex noster

    18. Codex Las Huelgas (13th century, Spain)
  18. Audi, pontus, audi, tellus

Playing time: 67'24"

Performer: Sarband - Vladmir Ivanoff, dir.
[Fadia el-Hage (voice), Belinda Sykes (voice, shawm), Marianne Kirch (voice dulcimer), Vladimir Ivanoff (musical direction, frame drums, ud)]; Osnabruck Youth Choir, Johannes Rahe, dir.

Recording site and date: Osnabrück, Germany [1997]

Comments: Information from owned CD. Known as "Sacred Women" in Dorian release.

A similarly-motivated program featuring one of the present performers:

Magdalena
Medieval songs for Mary Magdalen
Belinda Sykes / Joglaresa
Avie Records 0026

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Jon Stringer