Cappella Artemisia
Cappella Artemisia is an Italian all-female vocal group specializing in the music of the convents of 17th-century Italy. The group was founded by the American, but resident in Italy, singer and musicologist Candace Smith. Smith is also co-publisher, with her husband cornettist Bruce Dickey of editions of this music through Artemisia Editions. The main repertoire of the group focuses on nun composers themselves - including Raphaella Aleotti, the first nun to publish as a composer, Maria Xaveria Perucona and Isabella Leonarda, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Sulpitia Cesis, Alba Tressina, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana and Caterina Assandra. The ensemble also performs works of the male composers - some monks, some secular - who dedicated works to the convents.
Discography
- Rosa Mistica – musiche delle monache lombarde del‘600. Smith
- Raphaella Aleotti aka Vittoria Aleotti – Le monache di San Vito. The Nuns of San Vito. Works by nun composers and by Ercole Pasquini, Lorenzo Agnelli, Giovanni Battista Chinelli,. Smith
- Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – I vespri natalizi. Christmas Vespers. Smith
- Canti Nel Chiostro – Musica nei monasteri femminili di Bologna. Smith
- Cesis Sulpitia Mottetti Spirituali. Smith
- Soror mea, sponsa mea – Canticum Canticorum nei Conventi. Works by nun composers and Giovanni Paolo Cima, Adriano Banchieri, Sisto Reina, Benedetto Re, Agostino Soderini, Francesco Martini. Smith
- Scintillate, amicae stellae: Christmas in the Convents of 16th- and 17th-century Italy. Works by nun composers and by Francesco Rognoni Taeggio,, Tiburzio Massaino, Sisto Reina, Daniel Speer, Domenico Massenzio. Tactus 280003 2011
- Weep and Rejoice: Music for Holy Week from the Convents of 17th-Century Italy. Works by nun composers and by Adriano Banchieri, Alessandro Della Ciaia, Giovanni Legrenzi, Maurizio Cazzati, Lorenzo Agnelli, Giovanni Antonio Grossi, Agostino Soderini, Tiburzio Massaino,, Giovanni Battista Strati, Domenico Massaino. Brilliant Classics 946.38 2014