La voce della passione Ensemble Donnafugata

• 1Lamentomi et sospiro06:42
• 2E cunnanatu06:40
• 3Maria ittoni 'na vuci02:33
• 4Piange Maria cum dolore I01:16
• 5Stabat Mater02:54
• 6Piange Maria cum dolore II01:22
• 7Onne homo ad alta voce05:10
• 8O crocefisso03:17
• 9Davanti a una colonna04:49
• 10Stabat Mater dolorosa04:22
• 11Sacri scale02:35
• 12Agghiurnatu lu venniri matinu05:03
• 13Chianci chianci Maria03:49
• 14Pange lingua02:46
• 15E figliu ca ti partisti05:32
• 16Gloria02:15
• 17Dami conforto Dio04:38
• 18Criu a Diu e la santa fidi03:18
• 19Voi ch'amate lo criatore04:22
• Total Runtime01:13:23

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The tradition of Passion songs during the “Settimana Santa,” Holy Week, exists to the present day in many areas of southern Italy: weeping Madonna statues are carried in processions through the streets of the cities and villages so that the Mater Dolorosa can see “with her own eyes” the Crucifixus – the Christ statue taken down from the cross – laid out in every church. The songs that are heard during these processions number among the most moving testimonies of Christian musical history, linking, as they do, the transcendental sorrow of the devout at the death of Jesus and the very real sorrow of a mother for her deceased son. They are the last legacy of a direct participation of the people in the rites around Jesus Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.

The singer Noemi La Terra has researched the traditional Passion songs of her native Sicily and compiled for her debut album, together with Donnafugata and the Lamentatori di Montedoro – singers of lamentations from a small village in the Sicilian province of Caltanissetta – a unique collection of medieval Passion music still sung today: archaic, heartfelt, and touching.

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