Belinda Sykes & JOGLARESA
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Divine Rites Songs of the Laudesi The confraternities were groups of laymen who gathered together in a kind of self-help association, to pray, give alms to the poor, manage hospices, distribute welfare to poor members and to deceased members' families. Each scuola, or confraternity, had a patron saint, and celebrated festivals and rituals concerned with that saint; they also had specific altars in churches, where they met to carry out liturgical functions and to sing laude, or praises. Joglaresa specialises in para-liturgical song, or religious song that is performed outside the formality of the church. Here there is much opportunity for employing instruments (such as medieval fidels, harps and percussion) alongside singers who, not confined to Latin, can sing in a language that their medieval colleagues and audiences would have understood ñ leading to a thoroughly enjoyable and sometimes ecstatic celebration!
MP3s:| Madonna Santa Maria | Danza: Ave Maria| Laudata sempre sia | Salutiam divotamente | Madre che festi| Puer natus | "carnival-like exuberance ... enjoyable and virtuosic" "A superior collection of first-rate musicians" |
