Cantigas de remedios curativos (Alfonso X El Sabio)

Album : Cantigas de remedies curativos (Alfonso X El Sabio)

Artist : Eduardo Paniagua

Release date : 2006

Number of discs : 1

Label : Pneuma

Catalog # : PN-240

Genre : Medieval

Total size : 134 MB

Total time : 00:58:41

Tracklist:

1.    CSM 292: "Muito demostra a Virgen, a Sennor esperital" (instr.)

2.    CSM 322: "A Virgen, que de Deus Madre"

3.    CSM 173: "Tantas en Santa María son mercees e bondades"

4.    CSM 259: "Santa María punna d'aviir" (instr.)

5.    CSM 41: "A Virgen, Madre de Nostro Sennor"

6.    CSM 338: "Muitos que pelos peccados que fazen perden o lume"

7.    CSM 375: "En todo no faz merçee"

8.    CSM 268: "Gran confiença na Madre de Deus sempr' aver devemos" (instr.)

9.    CSM 101: "Ben pod' a Sennor sen"

10.  CSM 189: "Ben pode Santa María"

11.  CSM 393: "Macar é door a rravìa maravillosa e forte"

Alfonso X, the thirteenth century Spanish King of Castile and León, has been called a Renaissance man before the Renaissance. As a warrior prince, he led fierce Spanish armies against the Moorish occupation. As a politician on the European stage, he contended for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. At the same time, he made his court a multicultural haven for artists, scientists, and musicians -- Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike. The king himself composed poetry and learned treatises, and left an enduring cultural legacy that continues to this day.

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Pergolesi – Stabat Mater

Album : Pergolesi;  Stabat Mater – Salve Regina

Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Performers : Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Release date : 1989

Label : DECCA

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Classical

Total time : 00:51:38

Tracklist:

01. Stabat Mater - I -  Stabat Mater

02. Stabat Mater - II - Cujus animam gementem

03. Stabat Mater - III - O Quam tristis et afflicta

04. Stabat Mater - IV - Quae moerebat et dolebat

05. Stabat Mater - V - Quis est homo

06. Stabat Mater - VI - Vidit suum dulcem Natum

07. Stabat Mater - VII - Eja mater

08. Stabat Mater - VIII - Fac ut ardeat cor meum

09. Stabat Mater - IX - Sancta mater

10. Stabat Mater - Fac ut portem

11. Stabat Mater - XI - Inflammatus et accencus

12. Stabat Mater - XII - Quando corpus

13. Salve Regina - I - Salve Regina

14. Salve Regina - II - Ad te clamamus

15. Salve Regina - III - Eja ergo

16. Salve Regina - IV - Et Jesum

17. Salve Regina - V - O clemens

Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music here offer a spirited, colorful, and certainly one of the most unique performances of Pergolesi's most beloved sacred settings. For instance Hogwood eschews the traditional choir entirely heightening the roles of soloists. Having been in countless recordings together previous to these 1988 sessions, soprano Emma Kirkby and counter-tenor James Bowman rise to the occasion famously delivering highly emotional, tonally pure, captivating performances throughout. Decca's well-balanced sound is crisp, clear, and without any trace of edginess typical of original instrument recordings at the time.

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Historical Atlas of Islam

Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji, "Historical Atlas of Islam"
Harvard University Press
 2004-05-28
 ISBN: 0674013859
 208 pages
 PDF

Among the great civilizations of the world, Islam remains an enigma to Western readers. Now, in a beautifully illustrated historical atlas, noted scholar of religion Malise Ruthven recounts the fascinating and important history of the Islamic world.

From the birth of the prophet Muhammed to the independence of post-Soviet Muslim states in Central Asia, this accessible and informative atlas explains the historical evolution of Islamic societies. Short essays cover a wide variety of themes, including the central roles played by sharia (divine law) and fiqh (jurisprudence); philosophy; arts and architecture; the Muslim city; trade, commerce, and manufacturing; marriage and family life; tribal distributions; kinship and dynastic power; ritual and devotional practices; Sufism; modernist and reformist trends; the European domination of the Islamic world; the rise of the modern national state; oil exports and arms imports; and Muslim populations in non-Muslim countries, including the United States.

Lucid and inviting full-color maps chronicle the changing internal and external boundaries of the Islamic world, showing the principal trade routes through which goods, ideas, and customs spread. Ruthven traces the impact of various Islamic dynasties in art and architecture and shows the distribution of sects and religious minorities, the structure of Islamic cities, and the distribution of resources. Among the book's valuable contributions is the incorporation of the often neglected geographical and environmental factors, from the Fertile Crescent to the North African desert, that have helped shape Islamic history.

Rich in narrative and visual detail that illuminates the story of Islamic civilization, this timely atlas is an indispensable resource to anyone interested in world history and religion.

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The Art of the Deacon in the Russian Church

Album : The Art of the Deacon in the Russian Church

Performer: Various

Release date : 1994

Label :  Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Religious

Total size : 244 MB

Total time : 01:13:37

Tracklist:

1.      In everlasting memory of Father Konstantin        

2.      Lesson from the Gospel according to St. Luke        

3.      Blessed is the man        

4.      St. Simeon's Prayer         

5.      Everlasting memory     Listen    

6.      Lesson from the Gospel according to St. John        

7.      God is with us        

8.      Lord, strenghten the Orthodox faith        

9.      Lesson from the Epistle to teh Hebrews        

10.    Rejoice, O Virgin     Listen    

11.    Stichera for Lent, 8th tone and 6th tone     Listen    

12.    Lesson from the Prophecy of Ezekiel     Listen    

13.    Greek litany        

14.    It is truly meet to praise Thee        

15.    The Creed        

16.    Lesson fron the Epistle        

17.    Everlasting memory        

18.    Augmented litany        

19.    Many Years   

This recording features representatives of the uniquely Orthodox deaconal art: the art of leading the faithful in liturgical prayer and proclaiming Holy Scripture. The positions of archdeacon or protodeacon in Russian churches were traditionally occupied by gifted vocalists whose fame matched that of opera superstars in the West; the Great Archdeacon Konstantin Rozov, who served in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, was the reputed to be the greatest of them all. Gathered at the festival held in his memory were deacons and singers from Russia, Europe and the United States.


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Ensemble Organum – Missa Gotica

Album : Missa Gotica

Artist : Marcel Pérès & Ensemble Organum

Release date : 2009

Number of discs : 1

Label : Zig Zag Territoires

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 00:51:04

Tracklist:

Anon., Ms Toulouse

1. Kyrie
   Anon., Ms Barcelona – Apt
2. Gloria
   Gregorian
3. Allelulia: Veni Sancte Spiritus
   Anon., Ms Barcelona – Apt
4. Credo
5. Preface
   Anon., Ms Toulouse
6. Sanctus
   Gregorian
7. Offertory: Confirma hoc deus
   Anon., Ms Toulouse
8. Agnus Dei
   Gregorian
9. Introit: Spiritus domini
   Anon., Ms Toulouse
10. Ite missa est – Deo Gratias 

Missa Gotica is a recreation of an anonymous polyphonic mass from the fourteenth century - the time when the Papacy was relocated to Avignon. A major motive for this recording by the highly respected, and uncompromising, Ensemble Organum (six accomplished singers - including director Marcel Pérès) is to demonstrate the significant changes in style of such music at a time of equally significant developments in the liturgy.

Despite the calamitous nature of the fourteenth century (the Black Death, the Schism and European-wide devastation, war and poverty), its musicians, artists, writers and indeed its clerics were confident and proud of their new - and still emerging - abilities. In musical composition, for example, new understanding of arithmetic enabled more precise and expressive structures to be produced. These fitted the greater enthusiasm for observation and what we would now call 'scientific' advances; these enabled stronger and more spectacular architectural construction, for example. The tremendous belief of such makers in their world and in their powers to represent and reflect it is mirrored in the immense energy of the music on this CD.

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