Hildegard of Bingen Robert White

The Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola combines the sounds of the human voice, piano and viola da gamba with electronic effects and medieval harp. The players have diverse backgrounds in early music, jazz, Finnish folk music and contemporary music, although it was medieval music that was the inspiration for their highly personal and recognisable sound. The group continues to explore the chants of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Pérotin (1160-1230) and 14th-century pilgrimage songs.

Hildegard von Bingen- Sequentia - O Jerusalem
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Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # 05472 77353 2 | Country/Year: Germany 1997
Genre: Classical | Style: Medieval, Sacred

…The solemn majesty of the music is hard to miss: Slowly chiming church bells over a hauntingly beautiful chorus at the beginning of 'O Jerusalem' set the tone. Yet despite its seriousness, there is a joyful energy within. This sense pervades the piece, giving the music a buoyant quality within its medieval mode.

Noirin Ni Riain and the Monks of Glenstal Abbey - Vox de Nube
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Label/Cat#: Sounds True # STA A318 | Country/Year: US 1996, 1989
Genre: Classical, World | Style: Sacred Chant

Nóirín Ní Riain (born 1951, Caherconlish, County Limerick) is an Irish singer, writer, teacher, theologian, and authority on Gregorian Chant (plainchant, plainsong). She is primarily known for spiritual songs, but also sings Celtic music, Sean-nós and Indian songs. (…) As a child, Nóirín often visited Glenstal Abbey in Murroe to listen to the chants of the Benedictine monks. Later she performed and made several recordings with them, under which the trilogy: Vox Clamantis in Deserto (Caoineadh na Maighdine), Vox Populi (Good People All) and Vox de Nube (A Voice from the Cloud). She has a PhD in theology. Her thesis was The Specificity of Christian Theosonetics, an in-depth study and representation of sounds—primarily vocal sounds—as a means to religious experience from a Christian perspective.

Hildegard Von Bingen (ca. 1098-1179) - Symphoniae - Sequentia (1989) {Harmonia Mundi GD77020 rec 1982-1983}
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© 1989 Harmonia Mundi | GD77020
Classical / Medieval / Early Music / Religious

Sequentia’s Hildegard von Bingen Project: Initially in collaboration with the West German Radio Cologne (WDR Köln) Sequentia made a series of recordings of the complete works of Germany’s most important medieval composer, the abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). After recording the music drama, Ordo Virtutum, Sequentia went on to make a first recording of the abbess’s symphoniae, spiritual songs which were probably sung in the liturgy of her convent on the Rupertsberg in the late 12th century. A group of nine female vocalists under Barbara Thornton’s direction is complemented by five instrumentalists in this recording made over a period of a year, in two different medieval German churches.