classical music: Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

classical music: Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

classical music:

Cologne Sequentia ...

Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood

Hildegard of Bingen, Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

RCA, 1995

Absolutely divine.
"My husband and I first encountered this CD in our local library. It's one of those encounters that transformed our life. Listening to it almost daily, while we're getting ready for the day, while we're working on our computers, or while doing the dishes, has helped ...

Edda - An Icelandic Saga - Myths From Medieval Iceland / Sequentia

Icelandic Anonymous, Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

RCA, 1999

Sings to my DNA
While it's not unusual for me to have several different recordings of the same work by different performers, this is the only case in which I have two identical CDs, one for home and one for the car. I have to assume my Scots-Irish ancestry has some Nordic blood, as ...

Visions from the Book

Sequentia, Peter Abelard

RCA, 1996

Excellent Performances of a 'different kind of old music'
'Visions from the Book' performed by the 'Ensemble for Medieval Music', otherwise known as SEQUENTIA gives us a genre of old music which is neither purely liturgical (part of a mass) or minstral or part of a masque (dance). It is singing, with some instrumental ...

Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum

Hildegard of Bingen, Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

RCA, 1998

A piece of pure genius
Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum is a piece of genius. When it was written in the 12th century it was centuries ahead of its time and perhaps in some respect still is. Sequentia's interpretation matches the geniality of this music. The devil's intrusions are an invention ...

Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy

Hildegard of Bingen, Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music, ...

RCA, 1994

Ecstatic Music, Ecstatically Performed.
I had first heard this performance of St. Hildegard of Bingen's "Canticles of Ecstasy" on sound cassette and loved it. The music is sublime. The female voices are heavenly, without a hint of sentimentality. When you listen to "Canticles of Ecstasy" you will know ...

Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper [Hybrid SACD]

Anonymous, Cambridge Songs Anonymous, ...

RCA, 2004

Sequentia shines out again!!
It has been a long time since Sequentia has recorded an album. Sure Benjamin Bagby and the group has suffered the tragic loss of Barbara Thorton, but for her sake and for their gift, they've continued to produce a feast of music. This one is a lovely album! I heard a ...

Hildegard von Bingen: Saints

Gregorian Chant, Elizabeth Gaver, ...

RCA, 1998

another essential Hildegard discs
My first introduction to Sequentia's versions of Hildegard was Canticles of Ecstacy, which still best defines musically, for me, the soaring visions and mysticism of Hildegard. Much of this sense is to be credited to the female voices of Sequentia, not only exceptional ...

Aquitania

Sequentia

BMG, 1997

A Trip to the World of Medieval Aquitania
Aquitania was a rich part of the medieval world. It was the land of the troubadours and of the admirable liturgical chants. It was the world of the first medieval troubadour, Guilhelm IX, Duke of Aquitania and grandfather of Eleanor, the powerful queen. This CD ...

Shining Light, Music from Aquitanian Monasteries

Anonymous, Aquitanian Repertory Anonymous, ...

RCA, 1996

Sounds as pure as water
This disc is so beautiful, so full majesty and spirituality. It can quiet the stress and bring sweet comfort. The Sequentia singers so clean-sounding. Their voices have never sounded so pure, like the running of the streams. The chasms of the earth and the sea would be ...

Chill to the Chant

Gregorian Chant, Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

RCA, 1994

The Fabrics of Faith
There's something soothing about listening to the sounds of Gregorian monks, and I'm not really sure why that is. Perhaps its the spiritual resonance in those songs mingling with themes that I can't understand because of language barriers and that I don't want to ...

Ancient Music for a Modern Age

Hildegard of Bingen, Bishop of Troyes Ato, ...

RCA, 1993

beautiful voices bring medieval music to the modern world
As an extensive collector of medieval music I have listened to many cds that present 12th century music. Sequentia is one of the best performance groups of this type of music. Their harmonies are clear and crisp. The music reaches out from the dark ages and touches ...

The Inspired Effect
Anonymous, Codex Las Huelgas Anonymous, ...

RCA, 1999

The Years 1400-1500: Dunstable, Dufay et al

Anonymous, English Anonymous, ...

RCA, 1998

Good Representative Recording of the Early Renaissance
It is difficult to find good recordings of early Renaissance music - most recordings seem to go strait from the Medieval to the High Renaissance leaving this very interesting century untouched. This recording has a good variety of sacred and secular works (both vocal ...

Adventures in Early Music ~ Documented by DHM

Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, ...

RCA, 1997

A bit jumpy
My only problem with this cd is how quickly it moves from style to style, sometimes even cutting off before the end of a song! Just when I start to really get into it song (which is easy to do--there are some great ones on this cd) it ends, and a totally different ...

The Years 1000-1400: Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, et al

Albert of Paris, Alfonso X (el Sabio), ...

RCA, 1998

Good Start in Medieval
This a great album for those who wants to get started in the music of early Medieval Period. It's good to know and to have a simple reference, specially for those who are studying the History of Music. It's worth buying.