Since March of 2004 Cappella Clausura has performed a wide variety of full concert programs in the New England area all of them featuring women composers. An overview of our past repetoire is summarized below. available for purchase
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Ghirlanda de Madrigali- 4 part love songs by the teen-aged Vittoria Aleotti. This Garland of Madrigals was written by 14 year old Aleotti in 1566 the second woman to have printed a volumn of music devoted exclusively to her compositions.
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Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Program |
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Great Motets of Sulpitia Cesis. Program |
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Barbara Strozzi and
Isabella Leonarda. Program |
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Hildegard von Bingen's
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Dialogues:
Opera in the ConventProgram
contemplations
psallite superi
o caeli cives
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La Donna / La Dame
Music of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Raffaella Aeotti. From Hildegard on precious virginity, to a 15th century Austria with a motet by Princess Margaret, to motets on the love of Jesus from the Italian seicento by Suors Rafaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Margarita Cozzolani. Program
aux vains attraits
ecce iterum
indiscrete jeunesse
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The Complete Vespers of Cozzolani
Now Available ON-LINE
Cozzolani's luminous setting of the psalms and canticles for Christmas Eve Vespers, together with Emma Lou Diemer's jaunty setting of five poems by Emily Dickinson - another "cloistered" woman. Program
confitebortibi
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Isabella Leonarda & BarbaraStrozzi
Two maestras of virtuosic writing for voice and violin contrasted with Pergolesi's great "Stabat Mater" and some unheard villancicos from the Peruvian Baroque. Program
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Passionately Unconventional:
Madrigals and Motets by nuns of Bologna, Modena, and Ferrara
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inprincipio
tamomiavita
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Sulpitia Cesis and Her Consuors
Explore with us the motet in all its forms, as the Italian seicento heard it, with motets by Cesis and others. Includes pieces by Hildegard von Bingen and contemporary composer Hilary Tann's luminous piece for two voices, "The Moor," based on the poetry and hymns of her Welsh heritage.Program
ardeteceleste
averegina
odeus
stabamater
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The Female Mozart
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The Heart and Soul of Barbara Strozzi
Explores every facet of this highly-educated and complex woman, a singer/composer who had free concourse in the world of artists, men of letters and the cloth, plying her trade in a time when most women stayed home.
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Planctus Mariae:
A Medieval Opera
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Before and After The Veil
1593 a teenaged girl, Vittoria Aleotti, published a book of madrigals; 1593 a young nun, Raffaella Aleotti, published a book of motets. Were they the same woman?
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La Donna, La Dame
Donna Caterina Assandra was one of the first Italian nuns to have an entire collection of music pub-lished. Join her and Donna Chiara Cozzolani, Margaret of Austria and Elizabeth Jaquette de la Guerre for harmony and contrast. Program |
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From Bingen to Salzinnes
Musical traditions of 16th century Cistercians remained little changed since Hildegard von Bingen. We visit the music of the Salzinnes Antiphonal juxtaposing this work with Hildegard's Symphonia and end with a contempory new piece from Abbie Betinis.
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GLORIA: a Renaissance Christmas Pagaent.
Truely a different sort of Christmas pagaent with Creationdance, music of Patricia Van Ness, beautiful costumes and giant puppets!
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A CHANTAR: The Greek Connection
Recently transcribed Byzantine chant by 9th century Greek nun Kassia juxtaposed with songs of love by medieval women trouveres and trobairitz. Featuring lute, harp, recorder, veille and percussion.
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MESSA PASCHALE
A rarely heard Easter season mass for four voices and continuo instruments by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. Includes Hilary Tann's "Psalm 136" written especially for high voices.
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THE SALZINNES ANTIPHONAL
Chants taken from the original liturgical bookcompleted in 1555.
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Genius Will Out
A concert of newly discovered music written by women including the Vespers of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and chants of Hildegard von Bingen and Kassia. |
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Benefit Concert for the 2004 Tsunami Victims
Cappella Clausura joined several other choral groups in the Boston area on one unforgettably cold night in January 2005 and raised over $10,000 for Oxfam's Tsunami relief effort. |
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