classical music: Sequentia

classical music: Sequentia

classical music:

Sequentia

Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen, Catherine King, ...

Angel Records, 1994

Medieval meets lounge
If Hildegard Von Bingen wrote music for a hip lounge, this would be it. Its amazing that music this old ( from the 1100's) can sound so wonderful and modern with the addition of modern instruments. It really energizes the old music I have couple of recordings of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula

Anonymous 4, Hildegard of Bingen

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1997

Great Medieval Plainsong. Not all from Hildegard
'11,000 Virgins - Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula' performed by the vocal quartet, Anonymous 4' is 72 minutes of music at least as good as any of their other albums. But, over half of the pieces on this record are by medieval composers OTHER than Fraulein Hildegard. ...

Hildegard von Bingen: Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs) - Sequentia

Hildegard von Bingen, Sequentia

RCA, 1993

Great Introduction to Mystical Songs
This recording deserves a special place for what it has done to bring the works of Hildegarde before the public. Recorded in the late 80's, it led the way, as has Sequentia, in bringing such early music treasures as Hildegarde before the listening public. The ...

Feather on the Breath of God

Hildegard of Bingen, Doreen Muskett, ...

Hyperion UK, 1993

Luminous
Landmark recording of the early Kirkby glorying in this beautiful music. Ears that can do East and West may like to sample 'Shruti' by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - a similarly evocative and remarkable recording.

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 ...

Beowulf

Benjamin Bagby

Koch Vision, 2007

The best way to "get" Beowulf
Benjamin Bagby's performance on stage of the first third of Beowulf is magnificent! It goes through Beowulf's killing of Grendal, but does not include Grendal's mother or the dragon. We don't know how Beowulf was sung but Bagby does a very careful job of imagining ...

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 ...

English Songs of the Middle Ages - Sequentia

Sequentia

RCA, 1992

Available,,, for a Huge Price!
Middle English poems were mostly written to be sung or at least chanted with instrumental back-up, in the manner of the troubadours. However, fewer than two dozen poems in an English dialect rather thah in Norman French have survived with musical sources. Sequentia has ...

Chant Wars

Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby), Dialogos (Katarina Livljanic)

RCA, 2005

Chant Wars
I've been a fan of Gregorian Chant for over 40 years and I think this recording is the most beautiful and satisfying I have ever heard. If you don't have an SACD player, get one.

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 ...

Angels of Ecstasy / Heppner, Kasarova, Ozawa, Davis, Sweet

Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, ...

RCA, 1999

Angelic ecstasy
A splendid collection of orchestral religious music. Soothing, exquisite, and an excellent cross section. Brahms, Lloyd-Weber, Mascagni, Faure and many others with pieces selected for beautiful contemplative listening. A perfect musical elegy for rainy wintry days, ...