Seized By Sweet Desire - Singing Nuns and Ladies (CD)

Musica Ficta, Bo Holten

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Perotin: Alleluja, v./Posui adiutorium (Organum Triplum); Viderunt omnes (Organum quadruplum); Sederunt principes (Organum quadruplum)
+Leonin: Non vos relinquam, Homo quo vigeas
+Werke weiblicher Troubadoure: A vos vieg, chevalier sire / Et florebit; Je sui jonete / He Diex! je n'ai pas mari / Veritatum; Soufres, maris, et si ne vous anuit; S'on me regarde / Prenes I garde / He! Mi enfant; Cil bruns ne me meine mie / In seculum; Nus ne mi pourroit / Nonne sui, nonne, laissier / Aptatur; Joliement en douce / Quant voi la florete / Je sui joliete / Aptatur

Artists:: Musica Ficta, Bo Holten
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2005
Item number:: 3545520
UPC/EAN:: 0747313226573
Release date:: 28.9.2009
Series:: Naxos Early Music Collection

Until recently the rôle of women as composers and performers of both sacred and secular music during the Middle Ages has been seriously underestimated. This disc, sung by the all-female group Musica Ficta, reveals how well suited to women's voices are music from Notre-Dame in Paris and the songs of many trouvères (the northern counterparts of the troubadours of Languedoc). The latter songs, for instance, often feature female protagonists and present different perspectives on love and life to those by their male counterparts.