Legenda Aurea - Laudes des Saints au Trecento italien - La Reverdie

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Legenda Aurea - Laudes des Saints au Trecento italien - La Reverdie
DDD | TT: 70:00 | APE (EAC Rip) + CUE + LOG files | scans HQ (complete booklet + covers) | 372 MB + 80 MB (scans)
Published on 1998| Recorded at the Abbey of Rosazzo, Udine, Italy, 03 - 07 April 1997

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Since a fair amount is known from contemporary accounts about the instruments used and the configurations of singers, La Reverdie offers as close an idea as can be determined of the sound and performing style appropriate to these very charming and infectious songs. Besides their general optimistic mood (some are reminiscent of the Cantigas de Santa Maria), many of these songs have a seductive quality in the undulating rhythms and gently flowing melodies, with lots of stepwise motion and modal intervals. A good example is the song "Santa Agnese da Dio amata" (Saint Agnes loved by God), where a solo female voice alternates with sections for a trio of women, ideally accompanied by harp, rebec (a bowed stringed instrument), and occasionally a portative organ. The variety of melody and instrumental accompaniments is sufficient to keep our interest, even in the longer songs (the longest is 13 minutes!)--and these performers also know how to sing the vernacular texts with native sensibility. I highly recommend this disc--recorded with a fairly close-up sonic perspective--to all who want the sounds and sensual flavor of a particularly ingratiating and rarely heard repertoire. The performers are expert; the voices very pleasing.
--David Vernier

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Performers:

La Reverdie:
Claudia Caffagni (voice, lute, psaltery)
Livia Caffagni (voice, recorder, medieval fiddles)
Elisabetta de' Mircovich (voice, medieval fiddles, rebec)
Ella de' Mircovich (voice, harp)
Doron David Sherwin (voice, cornetto, percussions, portative organ)
Sergio Foresti (voice, portative organ)
Roberto Spremulli (voice, bells)
Matteo Zenatti (voice, percussions)
Paolo Zerbinatti (organistrum)