classical music: Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

classical music: Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music

classical music:

Cologne Sequentia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dante and the Troubadours
Aimeric de Peguilhan, Bertrand de Born, ...

Deutsche Harm Mundi, 2004

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rheingold Curse
Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music, Norbert Rodenkirchen, ...

Marc Aurel Edition, 2002

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 ...

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

RCA, 1999

Inspired: The Breath of God (A Musical Companion to the Book)
Codex Las Huelgas Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

RCA, 1998

900 Years - Hildegard von Bingen / Sequentia

Gregorian Chant, Elizabeth Gaver, ...

RCA, 1998

A Collection to Treasure
When my daughter was born about a year ago I initiated the project of collecting some of the "better music" for her, fearing that if she was only exposed to my preferred music she'd end up being a bass player in a biker band someday. I started with the Mozart piano ...