THE MARTYRED VIRGINS

Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus

Pro sinceritate corporali et spiritali

A Gregorian memorial to female victims of violence

1 Litany – Part 1 9’04

2 Tertio decimo AMEM 434 1’44

3 De virginibus (1) LHo 1072 3’16

4 Agnes beatae virginis LH 341 2’10

5 from 2 Samuel 13: Amnon and Tamar 2’40

6 Psalm 43 (42): Iudica me Deus PM 137 2’08

7 from Jours de famine et de détresse 3’13

8 Ingressa Agnes – Psalm 147: 16 AM2 6 0’57

9 from The men who killed me 3’54

10 Improperium GT 148 2’03

11 from The Magdalen 3’52

12 Vox in rama – Psalm 79 (78): 1 GT 638 2’36

13 Agnes famula LV 567 0’43

14 De virginibus (2) LHo 1072 4’59

15 Igne divini LH 340 2’43

16 Christus factus est GN 108 3’44

17 from Tehila Lieberman: 0’57

The Holy Text of Naeeda Aurangzeb 1

18 Ave verum CS 10 1’32

19 from Tehila Lieberman: 1’42

The Holy Text of Naeeda Aurangzeb 2

20 Beati mundo corde – Psalm 37 (36): 1 GN 237 3’38

21 from Marthe Link: Forgive us our trespasses 1’44

22 Stans beata Agnes – Magnificat AM1 789 4’47

23 Litany – Part 2 8’24

Sources

AM 1 Antiphonale Monasticum (Solesmes 1934)

AM 2 Antiphonale Monasticum (Solesmes 2007)

AMEM Antiphonale Missarum juxta ritum sanctae Ecclesiae

Mediolanensis (Rome 1935)

CS Cantus Selecti (Solesmes 1949)

GN Graduale Novum (Regensburg 2011)

GT Graduale Triplex (Solesmes 1974)

LH Liber Hymnarius (Solesmes 1983)

LHo Liturgia Horarum III (Vaticana 1973)

LV Liber vesperalis juxta ritum sanctae Ecclesiae Mediolanensis

(Rome 1939)

PM Psalterium Monasticum (Solesmes 1981)

SCHOLA CANTORUM KAROLUS MAGNUS

Stan Hollaardt

Soloists / Solisten

Jacques Janssen, Piet Ronnes and Arno Theune (1 & 23)

Stan Hollaardt (3)

Frans de Bont (8 & 20)

Jacques Janssen (12 & 14)

Frans de Bont, Jacques Janssen, Koos Leemker, Piet Ronnes

and Arno Theune (16)

Texts spoken by Catharina van Maanen

Recording: 17 & 24 May, 7 & 14 June 2011, The Netherlands

Since the early days, Christianity has shown a reverence and respect towards virgins, usually young girls who rejected the advances of the occupying Roman forces, arguing that they were instead married to Christ.

Often, these girls were raped, tortured and crucified by the authorities, and such atrocities extended through the Dark and Middle Ages and beyond. This stirring new CD sets Gregorian, Ambrosian chant and two episodes from the life of St Agnes, creating a musical memorial to female victims of violence and abuse, raising a plea for freedom, respect and peace to be established in today’s world. Poems and texts by Tehlia Lieberman and Marthe Link, read in English, punctuate the chants, and there are moving accounts by women raped in Central Africa and girls forced to enter homes for single mothers and give up their children.

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