Canticum Canticorum

Canticum Canticorum
Il Simbolo Sacro dell'Amore nella Tradizione Musicale Medioevale
Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua - Stefano Albarello
Symphonia 95135

Contents:

    La Presentatzione

  1. Sir hassirim'aser
  2. Filie Iherusalem nintiate
    Osculetur me osculo
  3. In odorem unguentorum
    Nigra sum
  4. Si ignoras te
  5. Rex Salomon (instrumental)

    6. Il Primo Incontro

  6. Pulchre sunt gene tue
    Iam dulcis amica venito
    Dum esset rex in accubitu suo
  7. Ecce pulcher (instrumental)
  8. Ecce tu pulcher es dilecte mi
    Adest Sponsus
  9. Ecce tu pulchra es amica mea
    Sicut lilium inter spinas
    Sicut malum inter ligna silvarum
  10. Tamquam Sponsus

    11. La Primavera

  11. Amor vincens omina / Mariae preconio / Aptatur
  12. Introduxit me Rex in cellam
    Laeva eius sub capite
    Eia Sponsa Christi
  13. Iam enim transit
    Procedentem Sponsum
    Ostende mihi faciem

    14. Il Corteo Nuziale

  14. Ferculum fecit sibi Rex Salomon
  15. Nuptialis hodie

    16. Il Corpo della Sposa

  16. Alleluja: Tota pulchra es
  17. Favus distillans labia tua
    Emissiones tue paradisus
    Fons ortorum puteus
  18. Si vocatus ad nuptias
  19. Virgines egregie
    Veni dilectus meus in hortum
    Veni in ortum meum

    20. L'Apparizione Notturna

  20. Dilectus meus misit
  21. Anima mea liquefacta es

    22. La Ricerca dell'Amato

  22. Adiuro vos Filie Ierusalem
    Dilectus meus candidus
    Talis est dilectus
  23. Aromimha lihevode (instrumental)

    24. Lode della Bellezza

  24. Sexaginta concubine
  25. Que est ista que ascendit
    Alleluja: Que est ista

    26. La Danza di Sulamite

  26. Descendi in ortum meum

    27. Il Secondo Incontro

  27. Veni dilecte mi
  28. Laeva eius sub capite
    Adiuro vos Filie Ierusalem
    Que est ista que ascendit

    29. La Celebrazione della Chiesa

  29. Soror nostra parvula
  30. Rex Salomon fecit templum

Performers: Alessandro Carmignani (tenor), Vincenzo Di Donato (tenor), Antonio Domenighini (baritone), Matteo Zenatti (tenor), Stefano Albarello (countertenor, 'ud, lute, saz, qanun), Paolo Faldi (recorders, shawms), Marco Muzzati (percussion, psaltery, bells), Gianfranco Russo (vielle, recorder)

Playing time: 72'

Recording date: March 1995

This recording is based on the Canticum Canticorum, drawing on a variety of sources of the 12th & 13th centuries from Paris, Italy, England and elsewhere.

The performance reflects the variety in the sources, mixing all-vocal works, with instrumental pieces, plus combined forces (whether in origin polyphony or monophony). Yet, the integrity of the text makes the program come off very coherently.

The way the recital is broken into "scenes" and presented integrally from principally monophonic sources makes it rather like an actual medieval mystery play in effect.

Other significant medieval programs on this theme:

Canticum Canticorum
Come into my Garden
Tapestry
Telarc 80486
Frauenlob
The Celestial Woman
Sequentia - Barbara Thornton & Benjamin Bagby
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77309

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Todd M. McComb