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Cappella Artemisia, an all-female ensemble based in Italy that specializes in performing music from Italian convents during the 16th and 17th centuries, has two albums dedicated to Christmas music. The first one is the 1650 Christmas Vespers by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani:
The nuns of the convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan were praised as “le prime cantatrici d’Italia”. Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1605-77ca.), singer and composer, published motets, psalms and scherzi musicali and her works appeared in various collections with such illustrious names as Monteverdi, Rovetta and Merula. Her Vespers music for 8 voices were scored (as was much of the music written for and by cloistered nuns) for 2 traditional choirs of soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Cappella Artemisia offers numerous solutions to this thorny problem of performing these sumptuous works with female voices.
http://cappella-artemisia.com/album-music/the-christmas-vespers-of-chiara-margarita-cozzolani/
The second one is a selection of Christmas music for nuns by both female and male composers:
The feast of the Nativity held a special place in the hearts and lives of Italian nuns. In a letter to archbishop Federigo Borromeo, a Milanese nun thanked him for his gift of a lute which “has cheered all of the nuns with me, […] and thus on the night of Holy Christmas we went to play Matins to all the nuns, singing Gloria in excelsis.” This recording presents works composed by and for these women that might have been heard or performed at Christmastime, and they call for a great variety of forces ranging from solo voices to double choirs of both singers and instruments. The nun composers represented include the Ursulines Maria Xaveria Perucona and Isabella Leonarda, author of 20 collections of vocal and instrumental music; Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and her conventual sister Rosa Giacinta Badalla from the renowned Milanese convent of Santa Radegonda; and Caterina Assandra, composer and dedicatee of various collections. The CD also features works by eminent male composers (Massenzio, Rota, Reina, Speer et al.), dedicated to these remarkable cloistered musicians. The forces heard on this recording are 9 singers, 2 violins, 3 viole da gamba, transverse flute, theorbo, guitar, baroque harp, organ and harpsichord – a total of 18 musicians.
http://cappella-artemisia.com/album-music/scintillate-amicae-stellae/
Texts (with Italian and English translations)
Enjoy and happy holidays!
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Yet they’d be the first to scream about ‘appropriation’ if you wore a feather in your hair, or hoop earrings.
They make me sick.