Cantigas de Santa Maria

Cantigas de Santa Maria
Alla Francesca
Opus 111 30-308

Contents:

  1. Cantiga 421: Nenbressete madre de Deus (7 voices)
  2. Cantiga 139: Maravillosos e piadosos (bagpipe, percussion)
  3. Cantiga 353: Quen a omagen da Virgen (3 voices, flute, vielle, percussion)
  4. Cantiga 281: U alguen a Jhesucristo (2 voices, harp, rebec, 3 flutes, 2 psalteries)
  5. Cantiga 369: Como Jesucristo fezo a san Pedro (7 voices, 2 flutes, cittern, percussion)
  6. Canitga 104: Nunca ja pod' aa virgen (flute, vielle, harp, percussion)
  7. Cantiga 383: O ffondo do mar (2 voices, vielle)
  8. Cantiga 29: Nas mentes sempre teer (2 bagpipes, percussion)
  9. Cantiga 160: Quen bona dona querra loar (7 voices, vielle)
  10. Cantiga 127: Non pod' ome pela Virgen (2 flutes, psaltery, percussion)
  11. Cantiga 424: Pois que dos reis nostro Sennor (7 voices, bagpipe)
  12. Cantiga 194: Como o nome da Virgen (2 flutes, percussion)
  13. Cantiga 105: Gran piadad' e merce (7 voices, recitation, flute, vielle)
  14. Cantiga 72: Quen diz mal da Reynna espirital (7 voices, harp, vielle, 3 flutes, 2 psalteries)
  15. Cantiga 7: Santa Maria amar (5 voices, vielle)
  16. Cantiga 181: Pero que seja a gente (bagpipe, flute, rebec, percussion)
  17. Cantiga 361: Null ome per ren (5 voices, 4 flutes, bagpipe, rebec, harp, psaltery)

Performers: Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, percussion), Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, vielle, rebec, cittern, psaltery), Pierre Hamon (recorders, flutes, double flute, pipe & tabor, bagpipes), Pierre Bourhis (voice), Florence Jacquemart (recorders, 3-hole flute, bagpipe, voice), Brigitte Le Baron (voice, 3-hole flute), Katarina Livjanic (voice, psaltery), Catherine Sergent (voice, psaltery)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: October 1999 (Paris)

A recording by the present ensemble of a smaller cycle of songs to the Virgin by Gautier de Coinci (1177-1236), said by some to have inspired the Cantigas de Santa María:

Gautier de Coincy
Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Alla Francesca
Opus 111 30-146

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Todd M. McComb