Composed in the mid twelfth century around the time Hildegard also began writing of her mystical visions, the hymns and sequences in her Symphoniae share the same poetic imagery and intensity of expression as her other religious writings. Hildegard's fluid monody differs dramatically from the plainchant hymns of the church, where balanced phrases ...
In 1819, poet John Keats longed for a wine "tasting of Flora and the country green, dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth." Ever since, the sung poetry of medieval southern France has exemplified a cultural golden age. Working in the vanished Occitan or langue d'oc (language of the south) variant of Old French rather than in the Latin of ...
Philippe le Chancelier: Notre-Dame-Schule was recorded in 1986 but not issued until 1990. Here Sequentia treads on territory that is admittedly dicey insofar as scholarly precision is concerned: Philippe the Chancellor was the top ranking layman within Notre Dame Cathedral during the first quarter of the thirteenth century, and is known primarily ...
Symphoniae is a reissue of the 1985 Sequentia LP Symphoniae: Spiritual Songs, an epochal recording that did much to set off the whole Hildegard boom -- if one can use that word to describe the audiences for music by a medieval German abbess. It is largely the work of Sequentia co-director Barbara Thornton, who died in 1998; her creative partner ...
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