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The Troubador & The Nun

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Label: Etcetera

Cat No: KTC1361

Barcode: 8711801101989

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th May 2008

Artists

Evelyn Tubb (soprano)
Michael Fields (medieval harp, renaissance lute, theorbo)
David Hatcher (vielle, recorder, viola da gamba)

Artists

Evelyn Tubb (soprano)
Michael Fields (medieval harp, renaissance lute, theorbo)
David Hatcher (vielle, recorder, viola da gamba)

About

This collection is an essay on the contrasts and similarities between devotional music and poetry directed to both human (secular) women, and - perhaps more importantly - immortal, sacred and philosophical aspects of the feminine principal. Four songs on this CD are praises and prayers directed to the Virgin Mary; another song addresses "The Lady Philosophy" - who is not a mortal woman, but the emblem of wisdom in its feminine version, like "Sophia". Two other songs celebrate purity (i.e. virginity) and unattainability in a mortal woman.

Evelyn Tubb is one of the outstanding sopranos of her generation, widely admired for her innovative performances. She has performed around the world - with the Consort of Musicke and other leading vocal ensembles, and in her partnerships with Michael Fields and Anthony Rooley. Her love for music mixed with drama has led to her performing works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, through Baroque opera, to recent pieces by Peter Maxwell Davies and David Bedford. Evelyn is a professor of singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.

Michael Fields played folk, rock and jazz in California and Australia before moving to England to study classical guitar and lute. He has worked with Evelyn since they met at the Guildhall School of Music. He directs the ensemble, Vox Animae, whose recording of Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard of Bingen has received international acclaim.

As a gamba player, David Hatcher has performed with his own chamber ensemble, Harmonie Universelle and with the Consort of Musicke and Fretwork. From 1987 to 1996 he lived in Japan, taking part in that country’s thriving early music scene.

This trio forms the core of the ensemble Sprezzatura.

Track Listing:
Giraut De Bornelh (1162-1199)
1] Reis Glorios

Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)
2] Ave generosa

Comtessa De Dia (Early C13Th)
3] A chantar m’er de so qu’eu non volria

Hildegard Von Bingen
4] O clarissima mater

Anonymous (Italian C14Th)
5] Lamento di Tristano/La Rota (instrumental)

Hildegard Von Bingen
6] O viridissima virga

Bernart De Ventadorn (C.1130-1190)
7] Can vei la lauzeta mover (Canso)

Anonymous (English 15Th Century)
8] Bryd one brere
9] Edi be thu, heven-queene

John Dowland (1562-1626)
10] Sweet, stay a while
11] I saw my lady weep

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666)
12] Like hermit poor

Tobias Hume
13] Death

William King (1676-1728)
14] The Given Heart

John Dowland
15] Melancholy galliard

Robert Johnson (1583-1633)
16] Have you seen but a white lily grow?