Cantigas de Mujeres - Women in the Cantigas. CSM 203, 186, 188, 107, 79, 201, 167, 94

Women take centre stage in this selection: Moorish women, Jewish women, nuns, craftswomen, maids, wives, mothers in law. They all have their own beautiful and dynamic personal history and they are all favoured by Holy Mary; wife, mother and “muse” of king Alfonso X, poet and troubadour. These eight cantigas are not about miracles in a shrine, but the importance of women in the adoration of Holy Mary. They are performed with period instruments and the melismatic voice of the excellent artist from Tetuan, Morocco, Samira Kadiri, who sings together with César Carazo.