BaL 16.04.16 - Hildegard of Bingen (survey)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys the music on record of the 11th century composer, writer, mystic and Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen, specifically the many liturgical songs that were collected into the extraordinary cycle known as the 'Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum'.



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Sequentia: Celestial Hierarchy
HILDEGARD: O splendidissima gemma; O dulcis electe; O speculum columbae; O spectabilis viri; O cohors militiae; O victoriosissimi Triumphatores; Kyrie eleison; O vos imitatores excelse; O gloriosissimi lux; O vos angeli
Sequentia
DEUTSCHE HARMONA MUNDI 88765468642 (CD)

[Serial_Apologist]

Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys the music on record of the 11th century composer, writer, mystic and Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen, specifically the many liturgical songs that were collected into the extraordinary cycle known as the 'Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum'.

I thought you meant somebody was going to carry out a survey to find out how many people have heard of Hildegard of Bingen!

[doversoul1]

I thought you meant somebody was going to carry out a survey to find out how many people have heard of Hildegard of Bingen!

At least four people have

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?14851-What-baroque-early-music-are-you-listening-to&p=552394#post552394

[BBMmk2]

Now, will be most interesting BaL!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Surely the earliest music on a BaL?

[ardcarp]

Do we get a list of recordings, Alpie?

[french frank]

Does this signal a different approach to Bal - one composer with a relatively restricted œuvre, rather than a specific work? Interesting to see what SMP makes of it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Does this signal a different approach to Bal - one composer with a relatively restricted œuvre, rather than a specific work? Interesting to see what SMP makes of it.

This has happened before, hasn't it? Not necessarily even with composers with a restricted output: I think that Frank Bridge was similarly subjected some time back?

[MickyD]

I may be wrong, but I am fairly certain that Léonin and Pérotin were also once given a BAL.

[doversoul1]

I think this is the nearest format to this edition, which I very much enjoyed.

Simon Heighes recommends recordings which best represent the music of Guillaume de Machaut

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0702y6g

Another off the main format BaL was Vivaldi opera BaL which was interesting, too.

It will also be good to have something like ‘project based’ BaL, since large numbers of early composers’ works tend to come in collection / project forms. and often more interesting to listen to in the ‘context’ rather than an entire CD of one composer.

[cincinnatus]

This has happened before, hasn't it? Not necessarily even with composers with a restricted output: I think that Frank Bridge was similarly subjected some time back?

I have been listening to BAL for over 20 years and in that time I have heard several composer surveys such as Biber, C P E Bach and Finzi. What is unusual is that already in 2016 we will have had 3 - Dutilleux, Machaut and Hildegard. Now is that a new trend or is 2 medieval composers this year the thing to notice?

[Old Grumpy]

Didn't SM-P do an Essay programme on Hildegard of Bingen? IIRC, it was very good.

This may be it.

OG

[Bryn]

Didn't SM-P do an Essay programme on Hildegard of Bingen? IIRC, it was very good.

This may be it.

OG

More like this, I think.

[Bryn]

What a shame Stevie Wishart's projected complete Hildegard von Bngen only made it to Volume 3 (plus, ahem, the "Hildegard" album).

[Old Grumpy]

More like this, I think.

Oops!

Thanks, Bryn

OG