Playing time: 67' 30"
Performers:
Sequentia, Ensemble für Musik des Mittelalters
Vox feminae: Barbara Thornton (voice), Gundula Anders (voice),
Pamela Dellal (voice), Elizabeth Glen (voice), Heather Knuthson
(voice), Nancy Mayer (voice), Lucia Pahn (voice), Consuelo
Sañudo (voice), Carol Schlaikjer (voice), Janet Youngdahl
(voice)
Barbara Thornton, dir.
Sons of Thunder: Benjamin Bagby (voice), Stephen Grant (voice),
Peter Halpern (voice), Eric Mentzel (voice), Peter Schmitz (voice),
Bernhard Schneider (voice)
Benjamin Bagby, dir.
Instrumental ensemble: Elizabeth Gaver (Medieval fiddles), Benjamin
Bagby (Medieval harp, portative organ, organistrum), Na'ama Lion
(Medieval flute)
Elizabeth Gaver, dir.
Barbara Thornton & Benjamin Bagby, dirs.
Recording site and date:
St. Pantaleon, Köln, Germany [10/1995]
Kunigundenglocke und Heinrichsglocke des Bamberger Dom [10/1996];
Rel.: 1997
Other releases: It is the third release in a serie of recording of symphoniae; previous to that serie, Sequentia recorded Hildegard on two occasions. For further references on Hildegard's recording, refer to the FAQ.
Excerpts:
[1], [5] RCA "Red Seals" 82876
60986 2 [CDx4] Trésors - Moyen-Âge
Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 75/892-100 (sept. 1997)
Diapason (#-p.): 438-68 (june 1997)
Fanfare ( #-p): 21/1-200 (sep./oct. 1997)
Comments:
Information from owned recording. It won a Diapason d'or in the
June 1997 edition of Diapason. The recording deserves it; the
interpetation is powerful, divinely inspired; a very good choice
between the rather iconoclastic performance of
Pérès and the meditational/New
Age performances such as the one by Norma
Gentile, soprano. Other good choices would be by
Schola der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Hildegard
on Bayer Recording or on Ars Musici AM
0942-2.
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Pierre-F. Roberge