Lacrime amare: Motets by Bianca Maria Meda
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95736
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 5th October 2018
Contents
Works
Anime belleIn foco ardentissime
Jesu mi clementissime
No non tentate
O lacrime amare
O quante contra me
Spirate vos zeffiri
Vibrate
Volo vivere
Artists
Cappella ArtemisiaConductor
Candace SmithWorks
Anime belleIn foco ardentissime
Jesu mi clementissime
No non tentate
O lacrime amare
O quante contra me
Spirate vos zeffiri
Vibrate
Volo vivere
Artists
Cappella ArtemisiaConductor
Candace SmithAbout
Even in the extensive library of little-known composers whose music has found a niche on Brilliant Classics, the name of Bianca Maria Meda (1661?–1732/33) counts as obscure. Little is known about Meda other than the scant details printed on the title page of the edition of these motets, printed in 1691: her name; her title: donna (indicating her position as professa in a Benedictine convent); and the name of the monastery where she lived: San Martino del Leano, in Pavia. She probably took holy orders as a teenager, and she was followed by several other members of her family.
These motets are sacred but not designed for liturgical use, setting first-person texts (possibly by Meda herself) on themes such as the renunciation of worldly pleasures, an ardent love for Jesus the bridegroom, and requests for intercession by Mary, the Queen of Heaven. The wide range of the vocal lines, as well as the difficulty of the vocal and instrumental parts, indicate that both singers and instrumentalists in Meda’s convent were highly skilled. Although the scores can be performed by a mixed voice ensemble, this recording restores them to the kind of performance that would have been heard in the convent of San Martino del Leano, with a light instrumental ensemble accompanying an all-female choir.
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