Tapestry - Faces of a Woman / Songs of Songs. Come Into My Garden / Celestial Light. Hildegard von Bingen

Subtitled “Tales of Remarkable Women Throughout the Centuries “ this tribute to the fairer sex features an Irish lady pirate, a Portuguese queen, a Montenegrin mother, a French countess, a Jewish-American socialist, the Virgin Mary, and St. Ursula together with 11,000 other virgins are all featured on Faces of a Woman by Tapestry, the fourth release by these three talented women from New England. The ensemble covers broad musical territory ranging from Hildegard von Bingen’s mystical and contemplative songs to Rachmaninoff ’s pleasing "Tebye poyem" and to swinging rhythms, from medieval operatic drama to Balkan folklore and to modern music, from the artistry of the ars novato sailors’ songs and to the first American blues

01 - Marcos KRIEGER (b.1967) - Lyulyala, lyulyala (Montenegran lullaby) [3:20]
02 - A window for her eyes (trad. Serbian, epic poem, 'The Building of 'Skadar') [9:26]
03 - Dom DINIS (1261-1325) - Non sei como me salv’a [3:36]
04 - Rainha Santa Isabel (Portugal, trad. romanceiro) [8:24]
05 - Nonne sui, nonne ~ Quant voi la flourette [Bamberg ms, 13th c] [3:17]
06 - Comtessa Beatrice de DIA (12th c.) - A chantar [6:16]
07 - Sergey RACHAMANINOFF (1873-1943) - Tebye poyem (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) [2:09]
08 - Ivan MOODY (b. 1964) - Slova. (Anna Akhmatova and Orthodox liturgy [3:17]
09 - Sergei RACHAMANINOFF - Sugubaya i Posleduyuschiya Ekteniya (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) [1:52]
10 - Joan SZYMKO (b. 1960) - Nada te turbe [4:42]
11 - Rabanus MAURUS (776-856) - Veni Creator Spiritus [1:44]
12 - Hildegard von BINGEN (1098-1179) - Quia ergo Femina - Spiritui Sancto [2:42]
13 - Margaret McALLISTER - Grainne Mhaol (Grace O’Malley) [6:10]
14 - Traditional Irish tunes: Oró Sé Do Bheatha‘ Bhaile / Julia Delaney … [6:52]
15 - … Oró Sé Do Bheatha‘ Bhaile / Julia Delaney [2:25]
16 - Careless Love (trad. Appalachian Folk song) [2:55]
17 - Robert KYR (b. 1952) - Love as a Child [5:52]
18 - Malvina REYNOLDS (1900-1978) - If you love me [0:57]

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Laurie Monahan, mezzo-soprano
Cristi Catt, soprano
Daniela Tošić, alto
Carolann Buff, mezzo-soprano
Shira Kammen, harp and vielle



Ivan MOODY. Canticum Canticorum
01 - I. Surge, propera amica mea [2:20]
02 - II. Descendi in hortum meum [1:30]
03 - III. Ego dilecto meo [1:33]
04 - Yo m'asento en mi ventana (sephardic instr.) [1:53]
05 - Rex Solomon [Worcester Antiphonarium] [7:50]
06 - Uri Tsafon (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [0:44]
07 - Shira KAMEN. Awake, North Wind [3:01]
08 - Shir Hashirim (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [1:14]
09 - William SHARLIN. Shir Hashirim [2:06]
10 - Hinach Yafah (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [0:45]
11 - Hildegard von BINGEN. O Ecclesia (sequence for Saint Ursula & her Companions) [9:09]
12 - Yonati B'chagvey (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [0:52]
13 - Nira CHEN. Dodi Li [2:55]
14 - Osculetur me [St. Martial repertory] [8:31]
15 - Hishbati Etchem (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [5:15]
16 - Dilectus Meus [Weinhauser Liederbuch] [4:45]
17 - Kol Dodi (Hebrew Cantillation, Song of Songs) [1:23]
18 - Una matica de ruda (sephardic instr.) [2:41]
19 - Max HELFMAN. Set Me as a Seal Upon Thy Heart [Max Helfman] [2:54]

Laurie Monahan, mezzo-soprano
Cristi Catt, soprano
Daniela Tošić, alto
Sandra Morales-Ramírez, mezzo-sopano, percussion
Shira Kammen, vielle, harp

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Bonus: mp3.vbr.175
Tapestry - Celestial Light. Hildegard of Bingen
Telarc CD-80456 (1997)

01 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O lucidissima [5:49]
02 - Novi sideris lumen respenduit [Notre Dame] [3:44]
03 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O cruor sanguinis [1:40]
04 - Deus misertus hominis [Notre Dame] [5:16]
05 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O tu illustrata [6:38]
06 - Flos ut rosa floruit [Notre Dame] [2:31]
07 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O viridissima virga [4:16]
08 - Robert KYR (text, Hildegard) - I. Song to the creator (O verbum patris) [5:57]
09 - Robert KYR (text, Hildegard) - II. Song of the virgin to her son (O fili dilectissime) [5:20]
10 - Robert KYR (text, Hildegard) - III. Song to the virgin (O magna res) [4:58]
11 - Hildegard von BINGEN - Nunc gaudeant [2:48]
12 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O eterne deus [2:43]
13 - Ave maris stella [Las Huelgas] [4:45]
14 - Hildegard von BINGEN - O nobilissima viriditas [6:59]

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Laurie Monahan, mezzo-soprano
Cristi Catt, soprano
Sandra Morales-Ramirez, mezzo-soprano
Daniela Tošić, alto

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