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1.A Feather on the Breath of God by: Doreen Muskett December 31, 1993
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This record is one of the best early music cds available, or perhaps it IS the very best, despite being over 20 years old. The musicianship, singing and recording are all wonderful, and the sound is so good, your living room will be transformed into a Gothic chapel. Unfortunately, this disc should come with a musical financial health warning, as newcomers to early music will probably find themselves shelling out for more and more of Emma Kirkby and Gothic Voices' recordings. And that's just the beginning: you'll develop a need for ever more obscure ensembles and composers for the rest of their lives. However, before you remortgage the house to buy similar music on full-price labels like ECM and so on, try the Jeremy Summerly discs ... Read More:

2.Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy from: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi February 06, 1995
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From the first soul stroking notes of 'O vis aternitatis' there is no doubting the intensity of feeling to be found in both the music and performance. Recorded over a decade ago, this Sequentia c.d. remains not only the best introduction to the music of Hidegard von Bingen available, but also amongst the finest recordings of mediaeval church music ever made. All the voices are female and maintain an individual clarity which is distinguishable even when singing in chorus - and in a marvellously atmospheric church acoustic. The voices are sometimes supported by instruments giving a vaguely resonant effect as if the crystal spheres themselves were ringing. If this sounds as though there is a ... Read More:

3.Vision - Music of Hildegard von Bingen from: Emi April 10, 1995
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Hildegard's music can be performed in many different ways. There's the 'purist' approach, that seeks to use top-class vocalists such as Emma Kirkby ('Gothic Voices') - who isn't on this album - in arrangements that come as close to the original as possible. The problem is, we simply don't know how the music really sounded when Hildegard wrote it. If you're a specialist, you'll already know why that is. But if you're not, it's all to do with the problems of interpreting the original manuscripts, and guesswork about what instrumentation Hildegard may have used. And we don't know how good Hildegard's nuns were at singing. The chances that any of them came close to technical virtuosi like Kirkby are pretty small. One thing's for sure, though. ... Read More:

4.Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations from: Naxos June 14, 1995
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This CD represents music from some 900 years ago during the medieval period and is a fine example of early monophonic music. Monophonic, meaning one sound, is that which has a single melody with little or no accompanying harmony. Typical of this type of music is the simple `plainchant'. Hildegard von Bingen, known also as `Blessed Hildegard' and `Saint Hildegard' was a lady named Hildegard born in the German town of Bingen. She was the first composer of music for whom a biography is written and possibly the most famous female composer since her birth in 1098 to the present day. She was also a noted author, mystic, philosopher, physician, poet, visionary, and found time to be an abbess running a Monastery of some 20 or so members ... Read More:

5.Hildegard von Bingen - 11,000 Virgins-Chants for the Feast of St Ursula by: Anonymous 4 October 13, 1997
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The music on this CD comes from the great Hildegard of Bingen, one of the towering female figures from the Middle Ages. Hildegard is not only one of the few women whose name has come down to us from the Middle Ages, but one of the few composers of any sort whose name survives together with his or her compositions. Hildegard was a sort of Renaissance woman before the Renaissance, whose fame spread in her lifetime such that she was advisor of monarchs and popes, as well as a significant creative and mystical figure. Between 1150 and 1160, she composed and collected poetry and musical works under the title 'Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations'. Much of her music was monophonic in nature, and tied to the liturgy. The Anonymous 4 in their ... Read More:

6.Hildegard Von Bingen - Hortus Deliciarum from: Naive November 03, 2003
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The music on this CD comes from the great Hildegard of Bingen, one of the towering female figures from the Middle Ages. Hildegard is not only one of the few women whose name has come down to us from the Middle Ages, but one of the few composers of any sort whose name survives together with his or her compositions. Hildegard was a sort of Renaissance woman before the Renaissance, whose fame spread in her lifetime such that she was advisor of monarchs and popes, as well as a significant creative and mystical figure. Between 1150 and 1160, she composed and collected poetry and musical works under the title 'Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations'. Much of her music was monophonic in nature, and tied to the liturgy. The Anonymous 4 in their ... Read More:

7.Hildegard von Bingen: Vespers from the Abbey from: Regis September 26, 2006
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This is by far the most magical of any recordings of this music. I have other recordings of Hildegards' music but by vocal groups, which are of course excellent. But the sheer beauty of the Nuns voices takes this recording to a higher dimension. If you want to hear this music as it originally sounded you must add this to your collection. You will then not listen to any other.

8.A Portrait of the Anonymous 4 from: Harmonia Mundi April 14, 1997
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This is by far the most magical of any recordings of this music. I have other recordings of Hildegards' music but by vocal groups, which are of course excellent. But the sheer beauty of the Nuns voices takes this recording to a higher dimension. If you want to hear this music as it originally sounded you must add this to your collection. You will then not listen to any other.

9.Complete Hildegard Von Bingen Vol.3 by: Synfonie February 23, 2004
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This is by far the most magical of any recordings of this music. I have other recordings of Hildegards' music but by vocal groups, which are of course excellent. But the sheer beauty of the Nuns voices takes this recording to a higher dimension. If you want to hear this music as it originally sounded you must add this to your collection. You will then not listen to any other.

10.Hildegard von Bingen: Songs and Antiphons from: Entrée Series October 01, 1999
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This is by far the most magical of any recordings of this music. I have other recordings of Hildegards' music but by vocal groups, which are of course excellent. But the sheer beauty of the Nuns voices takes this recording to a higher dimension. If you want to hear this music as it originally sounded you must add this to your collection. You will then not listen to any other.

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