Cappella Artemisia - Rosa Mistica: Musiche delle monache lombarde del Seicento (2000)

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Title: Rosa Mistica: Musiche delle monache lombarde del Seicento
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Tactus
Genre: Baroque
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:31
Total Size: 330 MB
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Tracklist:

1. O superbi mundi machina (Maria Xaveria Perucona) - 05:08
2. Duo Seraphim (Caterina Assandra) - 04:45
3. Ave Regina Coelorum (Isabella Leonarda) - 02:35
4. Ardete (Bianca Maria Meda) - 08:07
5. Laetatus Sum (Chiara Margarita Cozzolani) - 07:04
6. O Serene Pupillae (Rosa Giacinta Badalla) - 09:16
7. Psallite superi (Chiara Margarita Cozzolani) - 05:59
8. Salve Regina (Caterina Assandra) - 04:02
9. Gaude plaude (Maria Xaveria Perucona) - 05:56
10. O caeli cives (Chiara Margarita Cozzolani) - 06:59
11. O Dulcis Amor Jesu (Caterina Assandra) - 03:03
12. Occhi io vissi di voi (Claudia Sessa) - 01:36
13. Gaudete gaudio magno (Claudia Francesca Rusca) - 02:14
14. Litanie della Beate Vergine Maria (Isabella Leonarda) - 08:45

Seventeenth-century Lombardy was home to more published nun composers than anywhere else in Italy. Women such as Isabella Leonarda (author of 20 collections of vocal and instrumental music), her sister Ursuline nun and composer Maria Xaveria Perucona, Caterina Assandra (composer and dedicatee of various motet collections), Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and her conventual sister Rosa Giacinta Badalla, and other nun composers from Lombardy provide a portrait of a musical world which is today as fascinating as it is unknown. Rosa Mistica was awarded special mention by the Premio Vivaldi of the Fondazione Cini in Venice 1999.