Call for the Wailing Women

Cappella Artemisia, Smith, Candace

97603

World-premiere recordings of motets by a host of unknown names from the early Italian Baroque: the latest result of performing scholarship by a group with a notable track record of success in this repertoire.

International critics have praised the ‘expert performances’(Gramophone) of Cappella Artemisia, and the intrepid adventurousness of the ensemble’s founder, Candace Smith, in turning up one buried treasure after another, most of them to be found in the music libraries of Italian convents. The latest fruitsof her research have turned up lamentations by Carlo Donato Cossoni, Alessandro Della Ciaia, Giovanni Matteo Asola, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Agostino Guerrieri, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Giovanni Battista Strata, Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – and the best known name among them, Anonymous.

Works:

•Cossoni: Morior Misera (From Motetti a Due E Tre Voci, Op. 1, Venice 1665, Rep. 1678)
•Ciaia: Feria Quinta, Lamentatione Prima (From Lamentationi Sagre, E Motetti Ad Una Voce Col Basso Continuo, Venice 1650)
•Giovanni Matteo Asola: Lamentationes in Coena Domini (From Lamentationes, Improperia, Et Alia Sacrae Laudes, Venice 1588 in Alternation with Anon: Lamentatione Di Geremiah (From Canti Delle Monache, Bologna 1670)
•Cozzolani: Quid Miseri, Quid Faciamus? (From Concerti Sacri a 1-4 Voci, [Op.2, Venice, 1642]
•Guerrieri: Sonata Malinconica (From Sonate Di Violino [...] Per Chiesa, & Anco Aggionta Per Camera, Venice 1673)
•Vizzana: Usquequo Oblivisceris Me in Finem? (From Componimenti Musicali Di Motteti Concertati a Una, Due, Tre E Quattro Voci..., Venice 1623)
•Strata: Deh, Che Fai, Anima Mia (From Arie Di Musica [...] Per Concertare Con Voci E Strumenti, Genoa, 1610)
•Maria Francesca Nascimbeni: O Trafitto Mio Dio (From Canzoni E Madrigali Morali, E Spirituali. A Una, Due E Tre Voci, Ancona 1674)
•anon.: La Monaca Musica (From MS. Mo G239, Biblioteca Estense, Modena)
•Ciaia: Lamentatio Virginis in Depositione Filij De Cruce (From Sacri Modulatus Ad Concentum..., Op. 3, Bologna 1666)

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20.02.2026

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