Cantigas de Santa Maria - Esther Lamandier

Ensemble: Esther Lamandier
Album: Cantigas de Santa Maria
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This 2021 is the anniversary of the 800 years from the birth of Alfonso X El Sabio. To celebrate him, this year I'll share many versions of his Cantigas! This is the second video about it, you can find the first one easily on the channel.
This version of the Cantigas de Santa Maria is by Esther Lamandier, a real pioneer for explorations in early chant and monodic music. She was born in France, but her father's family is Jewish, from Piatra Neamț in Romania.
She is a specialist in both Assyrian and Sephardic Jewish song. In this record she sings and plays every instrument: harp, vielle and portative organ.
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Alfonso X was born in 1221, he was King of the Romans, of Castile and León. His father was Ferdinand III, a liberal man called "the Saint" and the "King of religions" as during his reign he managed to make Christians, Muslims and Jews coexist in peace. His mother was Elisabetta Hohenstaufen, nephew of Frederick Barbarossa. From the sources that speak of his life we ​​know that in his youth Alfonso was surrounded by numerous paramours and politically helped his father in many military campaigns, but it was his love for Art that made him immortal with the nickname "El Sabio". In 1254 Alfonso endowed with many privileges the school of Salamanca, founded by his grandfather, and thanks to Pope Alexander IV, he obtained permission to make the school an international university allowing its graduates to teach anywhere, except Paris and Bologna. Alfonso tried to bring together all the knowledge of his time in the language spoken by his subjects by founding the School of Translators of Toledo; the Muslim and Jewish sages of his court translated ancient Arabic and Hebrew works into Castilian. His scientific, historical and literary work was fundamental; promoted the drafting and publication of a series of authoritative texts in various fields of artistic and scientific culture such as the Alfonsine Tables: astronomical tables capable of providing the positions of the Sun, planets, stars and the dates of eclipses. He was also an excellent poet and even the author of one of the first treatises on chess. However, it was Music that handed it over to legend thanks to the collection of the famous Cantigas de Santa Maria, monophonic songs of the XIII cent. now preserved in Madrid and Florence, containing an enormous number of compositions and representations of musical instruments and players. The outset of these compositions can be traced back to the troubadour art, which were so successful as to induce Alfonso X to use both the language and the form. Marian devotion was particularly in vogue in this century, the collection sees the participation of aristocrats and courtiers, bourgeois, friars, clerics and jesters of humble origins, but protected in the courts. King Alfonso himself composed cántigas, some of which incite poets and jesters to dedicate their efforts and inspiration to the “Santa Dama”. In addition to the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Cantigas de Amigo, popular, melodious and melancholic, also spread in that period, showing some contact with the Mozarabic kharge in Arabic-Hebrew composed in the XI cent.. The work has great importance from a triple point of view: literary, musical and pictorial. Alfonso X inherited from his father Fernando III his musical chapel which brought together interpreters and composers of various cultures and who formed part of the alphonsine court, similar to his School of translators or scriptorium regio. He seems to be surrounded by them in some miniatures. The melodies are influenced by Gregorian monody, popular lyric and troubadour songs. The Codices of the Escorial Library are adorned and profuse with miniatures, fundamental for the reconstruction of 13th century musical instruments: flutes, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, lute, vielle, cítara, guiterne, harp, castañuelas, bagpipes, dulzaine...
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1 Cantiga 384, A Que Por Muy Gran Fremosura
2 Cantiga 159, Non Sofre Santa Maria
3 Cantiga 60, Entre Av' E Eva
4 Cantiga 340, Virgen Madre Groriosa
5 Cantiga 150, A Que Deus Ama, Amar Devemos
6 Cantiga 322, A Virgen, Que De Deus Madre
7 Cantiga 391, Como Pod' A Gloriosa
8 Cantiga 27, Non Devemos Por Maravilla Teer
9 Cantiga 20, Virga De Jesse
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00:00 1 Cantiga 384, A Que Por Muy Gran Fremosura 03:58 2 Cantiga 159, Non Sofre Santa Maria 08:56 3 Cantiga 60, Entre Av' E Eva 12:14 4 Cantiga 340, Virgen Madre Groriosa 21:12 5 Cantiga 150, A Que Deus Ama, Amar Devemos 24:17 6 Cantiga 322, A Virgen, Que De Deus Madre 30:25 7 Cantiga 391, Como Pod' A Gloriosa 35:10 8 Cantiga 27, Non Devemos Por Maravilla Teer 42:33 9 Cantiga 20, Virga De Jesse

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I adore the Cantigas de Santa Maria to high heavens. It is my first time to hear of Esther Lamandier's interpretation. How sublimely beautiful. As an enthusiast of Sephardic music, what I have though is an ancient copy of her Sephardic Romances CD. Teeming with musical talent, her soprano voice is so beautiful and pure. Once again, thank you, dear friend for uploading this exquisite compilation.

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Ah ! an old interpretation but still a great one. You think yourself at the court of Alfonso el Sabio and see Ester sitting there singing. She fits right in, at that time Jews and Moors and all were living peacefully together. What an amazing woman Ester Lamandier is.

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obra monumental de Esther Lamandier sobre tradicion medieval cantos cristianos arameos...cantilacion antiguo testamento...obra ireemplazable...tuve la suerte de conversar con ella en Paris en 1992 y de corresponder surante mucho tiempo. siempre me emociona y sorprende su trabajo.

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Highest praise to those who preserved and recited these cantigas to us.

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