EL CANT DE LA SIBILLA, Sacred Music from Medieval Catalunya (CD)

El Cant de la Sibilla
Sacred music from medieval Catalunya

Music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
1 Polorum Regina 5’10
Soloist: Eloisa Iori
2 Los set goyts 2’33
3 Maria Matrem Virginem 6’41
4 Stella splendens 2’58
Soloists: Emma Giannini, Eloisa Iori
5 Imperayritz de la ciudad joyosa 6’31
Soloist: Maria Chiara Di Benedetto
Traditional Catalan ballad
6 El comte Arnau 4’11
Soloists: Rachele Zamperini, Simone Emili
Music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
7 Ad mortem festinamus 2’29
8 Laudemus Virginem – Splendens ceptigera 1’47
Music from the Barcelona Lectionary (14th century)
9 Antiphona: Christus natus est nobis – 2’29
Psalmus 94/95 (Invitatory): Venite exultemus Domino
Soloist: Simone Emili
10 Benedictio – Lectio – De homilia Sancti Augustini 1’41
11 Responsorium: Verbum caro factum est 2’32
12 Benedictio – Lectio – Sermo Sancti Augustini in die Natalis Domini 1’25
13 El cant de la Sibil•la 7’02
Soloist: Chiara Galioto
Music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
14 O Virgo splendens 1’39
15 Cuncti simus concanentes 3’00
Soloists: Eloisa Iori, Rachele Zamperini, Simone Emili
Traditional medieval song
16 Ave maris stella 1’57
Soloist: Simone Emili
Total time 54’12
Ensemble San Felice
Federico Bardazzi conductor
Instrumental accompaniment
Federico Bardazzi vielle
Michele Bertucci recorders, tambourine, symphonia (hurdy-gurdy)
Dimitri Betti portative organ
Xiao Ran Bu erhu (Chinese violin)
Marco Di Manno recorders
Dario Landi lute
Veronica Nosei shawms, recorders
Donato Sansone recorders, percussion, symphonia, bagpipe
Tommaso Scopsi percussion
Vocalists
Federico Bardazzi, Dimitri Betti, Shuyun Huang, Dario Landi, Marco Di Manno,
Xhianzhuo Mi, Tommaso Scopsi, Mengyao Sun, Xiao Jing Xu, Zhiqiang Zhang
Pueri Cantores della Cattedrale di Sarzana
Alessandra Montali chorus mas
Recording: 9 & 10 April 2016, Pieve di Sant’Andrea in Sarzana, La Spezia, Italy