"Carmina Carolingiana" is a collection of poetic works from the IXth and Xth centuries; most were written in Latin anddid not belong to the liturgy proper.The pieces selected for this recording recall and dramatize events connected with the Carolingian Empire: thelamentation upon the death of Charlemagne, the battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, the ransacking of the abbey ofSaint-Florent and the Emperor's passion for the poets of Roman antiquity: Boethius, Horace, Virgil?There are precious few traces left of this repertoire which testifies to the taste of imperial courts for poetry and thearts. The pieces recorded in this anthology are among the very few that have kept their musical notation, a mere setof neumes written above the words. Their restitution has involved extensive work of research and imagination in orderto offer a plausible version of these jewels of the 'Carolingian Renaissance'.
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LigerianaKatia Caré, conductor
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