EL CANT DE LA SIBIL-LA - FIGUERAS, CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA, SAVALL (Hybrid SACD)

Montserrat Figueras
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall
For centuries, the Song of the Sibyl was traditionally sung by the oneiric voice of a young boy. This was because women were forbidden by the Church Fathers to sing in places of worship, with the exception of female monasteries. The result of this ban was that the prophetic female figure who proclaimed the message was lost to us. The patriarchal nature of the Church thus deprived women of the opportunity to act as vehicles of the divine word. Thanks to this ancient song, however, the light of the Delphic, Persian, Libyan, Cumean, Erythrean, Samian, Cuman, Hellespontine, Phrygian and Tiburtine Sibyls continues to live on in the female voice and figure.