Hildegard von Bingen - Celestial light

Hildegard von Bingen - Celestial light, Chant of Hildegard von Bingen, Medieval polyphony & New work by Robert Kyr
Tapestry - Laurie Monahan, dir.
Telarc CD-80456

Contents:

    Hildegard von Bingen:
  1. O lucidissima

    2. School of Notre Dame, 13th c.:
  2. Novi sideris Lumen respenduit

    3. Hildegard von Bingen:
  3. O cruor sanguinis

    4. School of Notre Dame, 13th c.:
  4. Deus misertus hominis

    5. Hildegard von Bingen:
  5. O tu illustrata

    6. School of Notre Dame, 13th c.:
  6. Flos ut rosa floruit

    7. Hildegard von Bingen:
  7. O viridissima virga

    8. Robert Kyr / Hildegard von Bingen: From the Circling Wheel
  8. Song to the Creator (O verbum Patris)
  9. Song of the Virgin to her Son (O fili dilectissime)
  10. Song to the Virgin (O Magna res)

    11. Hildegard von Bingen:
  11. Non gaudeant
  12. O eterne Deus

    13. Huelgas MS, 13th c.:
  13. Ave Maris stellaO viridissima virga
    Hildegard von Bingen:
  14. O nobilissima viriditas

Playing time: 63' 17"

Performers:
Tapestry
Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Cristi Catt (mezzo-soprano), Sandra Morales-Ramirez (mezzo-soprano), Daniela Tosic (alto)
Laurie Monahan, dir.

Recording site and date:
Studio A, National Music Foundation, Lenox, Massachussetts [05/1997];
Rel.: 1997

Previous release by this group:

Angeli - Music of Angels
Ensemble Project Ars Nova / Tapestry
Telarc 80448

Next releases by this group:

Canticum Canticorum
Come into my Garden
Tapestry
Telarc 80486
The Fourth River
The Millennium Revealed
Tapestry
Telarc 80534

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 76/903-70 (july 1998)
Diapason (#-p.):
Fanfare (#-p.): 21/3-118 (jan./feb. 1998)

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Pierre-F. Roberge