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Kassias Saga

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Kassias Saga (INGRIED BOUSSAROQUE)
from The Saga of Gísli and Hymn by Cassia of Constantinople

This piece is in honor of women, who are not so present in the sagas. The men sing verses from the Saga of Gísli, where the hero, as he is dying, pays homage to a woman who appears to him in a dream.
In the second part of the piece, we present a hymn in ancient Greek by the Greek abbess Cassia (9th– century) — our salute to onstantinople and to this remarkable woman. The nay and the ud respond to the nyckelharpa, the mouth harp and the shawm.

Cette pièce met les femmes à l’honneur, elles qui sont peu présentes dans les Sagas. Le chœur masculin chante des vers tirés de la Saga de Gísli, où le héros, avant de mourir, rend hommage à une femme
qui lui est apparue en songe. La deuxième partie présente un hymne en grec ancien de l’abbesse Cassia (IXe s.), clin d’œil à Constantinople et à cette femme marquante. Le nay et le oud répondent à la nyckelharpa, à la guimbarde, à la chalémie.

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from Midgard, released May 8, 2015
Composition by Ingried Boussaroque, lyrics from the Gisli saga and Kassia of Constantinopolis
La Mandragore (I. Boussaroque, voice, shawm and nay; S. Dagher, voice and cittern; G. Jeay, voice, percussions; A. Kehler, voice and nyckelharpa; A. Wells-Oberegger, voice, Jew's harp and oud)

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