Secret Voices

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Anonymous 4 revisit their favorite era in repertoire that illuminates medieval women s affinity for the most complex polyphony of their time. Spanning the entire 13th century from virtuosic motets and conductus to heartfelt laments and sacred songs the remarkable Las Huelgas manuscript was compiled for a convent of aristocratic Castilian women who (in spite of a rule forbidding Cistercian nuns from singing polyphony) sang the most beautiful, advanced and demanding music from all across Gothic-era Europe.

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contents:

1. Virginies egregie

2. Ave maris stella

3. Claustrum pudicicie/Virgo viget

4. Fa fa mi/Ut re mi

5. O Maria virgo/O Maria maris stella

6. Benedicamus domino: cum cantico

7. Salve porta/Salve salus/Salve sancta parens

8. Kirie: Rex virginum amator

9. Gloria: Spiritus et alme

10. Verbum bonum et suave

11. Salve virgo regia/Ave gloriosa mater

12. Sanctus & Benedictus

13. Gaude virgo regia/Verbum caro factum

14. Agnus dei: Gloriosa spes reorum

15. O monialis conscio

16. Benedicamus domino: Belial vocatur

17. In virgulto gracie

18. Ave regina celorum/Alma redemptoris mater

19. Benedicamus domino a 3 (rondellus)

20. Si vocatus ad nupcias

21. Mater partis et filia

22. Benedicamus domino a 2

23. Omnium in te christe

Anonymous 4