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 ...
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 ...
The music written by convent nuns remains among the least-investigated aspects of the tradition of Western concert music by women, and this disc of Italian music of the early seventeenth century hints at the riches still to be discovered, performed, and recorded elsewhere. Raphaella Aleotti was the "concert mistress" of a convent San Vito, near ...
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