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| Benjamin Bagby's BEOWULF |
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| Produced by Charlie Morrow and Jon Aaron (released in 2007) |
| Notes:
| The long-awaited video production of a live performance of Bagby's legendary 'Beowulf', filmed in Sweden in 2006.
For full information: www.BagbyBeowulf.com |
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| Chant Wars:
The Carolingian 'globalisation' of medieval chant (2005) |
| Product #:
| DHM (Sony-BMG) 82876 66650 2 |
| Notes:
| In collaboration with the ensemble Dialogos
Two of Europe's most innovative ensembles for medieval music join their men's vocal ensembles in a revealing new vision of 'Gregorian Chant' which illuminates the legendary confrontation between Carolingian cantors and regional European chant traditions of the 9th century. |
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| Krone und Schleier (Crown and Veil)
Music from medieval women's cloisters (2004) |
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| Women's vocal ensemble of Sequentia, directed by Benjamin Bagby
Produced by the Kunst- und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and the Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, in co-production with WDR Köln.
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| This unusual program of religious song was commissioned by two German museums to accompany a major exhibition of German liturgical art in 2004. It is available directly from the museums. |
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Title:
| Lost Songs of the
Rhineland Harper |
| Product #:
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82876589392 |
| Notes:
| In one of its most enterprising recordings yet,
SEQUENTIA reaches back a thousand years to rediscover a
rich and haunting musical world that time almost forgot
– sophisticated secular songs of life and love from the
German Rhineland in the 10th and 11th centuries.
Sequentia's co-founder and guiding spirit Benjamin Bagby
is joined by singers Eric Mentzel and Agnethe
Christensen and flutist/harpist Norbert Rodenkirchen. |
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The Rheingold Curse, A Germanic Saga of Greed and
Revenge from the Medieval Icelandic Edda |
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Product #: |
MA 20016 |
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The Rheingold Curse, A Germanic Saga of Greed and
Revenge from the Medieval Icelandic Edda,
features the complete music from Sequentia's highly
acclaimed production of EDDA: Viking Tales of Lust,
Revenge and Greed, performed at the Lincoln Center
Festival last July and internationally over the past
eight months. |
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EDDA, Myths from Medieaval Iceland |
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Product #: |
05472 77381 2 |
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The Icelandic Edda is the earliest medieval
manuscript containing ancient germanic myths,
stories of gods and heroes, tales of possession,
betrayal and revenge. The music will be chanted to
the original Eddic poems and spoken texts will be
adapted and interpolated from the Prose Edda of
Snorri Sturluson (ca. 1200).
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| Music of Hildegard von Bingen |
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| Title: |
Canticles of Ecstasy |
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Hildegard von Bingen |
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05472 77381 2 |
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O Jerusalem |
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05472 77353 2 |
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Ordo Virtutum |
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05472 77381 2 |
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Saints |
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05472 77378 2 |
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Sinfoniae (Spiritual Songs) |
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Composer: |
Hildegard von Bingen |
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GD 77020 |
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Voice of the Blood |
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05472 77381 2 |
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| Other Releases of Interest |
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| Title: |
Visions from the Book |
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95472 77347 2 |
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Title:
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Vox Iberica I: Sons of Thunder (Music for St James
the apostle, Codex Calixtinus, 12th century)
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RD 77199 |
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Title:
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Vox Iberica II: Codex Las Huelgas (Music for the
royal convent of Las Huelgas de Burgos, 13th-14th
centuries)
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05472 772 |
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Vox Iberica III: El Sabio (Songs for King Alfonso
X of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284)
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05472 77173 |
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Motets and Chansons
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Philippe de Vitry |
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Product #: |
RD 77095 |
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Bordesholmer Marienklage
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05472 772802 |
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Title:
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Lieder and Songs
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Composer: |
Oswald von Wolkenstein |
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05472 773022 |
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Dante and the Troubadours
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05472 772272 |
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School of Notre Dame (Conductus, Lai, Sequence,
Rondellus)
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Composer: |
Phillipe le Chancelier |
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Product #: |
RD 77155 |
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Trouveres (Courtly love songs from Northern
France)
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RD 77155 |
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Aquitania: Christmas Music from 12th Century
Monastaries
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Product #: |
05472 77381 2 |
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| Title: |
Shining Light |
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05472 77370 2 |
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English songs of the middle ages |
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GD 77019 |
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Note: Many of Sequentia's earliest recordings are out of print but occasionally available online or in used record shops.
For the complete discography, see below.
Sequentia Discography
These include productions of medieval music for which Benjamin Bagby was either musical director, musical co-director (with Barbara Thornton). Almost all releases are on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi label.:
1.) Spielmann und Kleriker (LP, 1981)
2.) Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum (2 LPs, 1982)
3.) Spruchdichtung des 13. Jahrhunderts (LP, 1983)
4.) Hildegard von Bingen: Sinfoniae (LP, 1983) *
5.) Trouvères (3 LPs, 1984)
6.) English Songs of the Middle Ages (LP, 1986) *
7.) Philippe le Chancelier / School of Notre Dame (CD, 1987) *
8.) Philippe de Vitry: Motets and Chansons (CD, 1988)
9.) Vox Iberica I: Sons of Thunder / Music for St. James the Apostle (CD, 1989)
10.) Vox Iberica II: Codex Las Huelgas (CD, 1990)
11.) Vox Iberica III: El Sabio (CD, 1991)
12.) Bordesholmer Marienklage (2 CDs, 1992)
13.) Oswald von Wolkenstein: Lieder (CD, 1993)
14.) Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy (CD, 1993) *
15.) Hildegard von Bingen: O Jerusalem (CD, 1994) *
16.) Dante and the Troubadours (CD, 1995) *
17.) Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood (CD, 1995) *
18.) Visions from the Book (CD, 1996)
19.) Hildegard von Bingen: Saints (2 CDs, 1996) *
20.) Shining Light: Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (CD, 1996)
21.) Aquitania: Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (CD, 1997)
22.) Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum [new production] (2 CDs, 1998)
23.) Edda: Myths from Medieval Iceland (CD, 1999) *
24.) Frauenlob: In Praise of the Celestial Woman (CD, 2000) [recorded in 1990]
25.) The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga from the Medieval Icelandic Edda (2 CDs, 2002)
(released by Marc Aurel Edition / Cologne, Germany / www.aurel.de) *
26.) With Voice & Pen [major participation in an anthology CD recording of medieval song to accompany a book-length collection of the collected writings on medieval music by musicologist Leo Treitler: With Voice & Pen (Oxford UP, 2004)] *
27.) Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper (CD, 2004) *
28.) Krone und Schleier (Crown and Veil: Music from Medieval Female Monasteries) WDR Köln / Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (CD, 2005). [anthology recording made to accompany a major German exhibition of medieval art from women’s monasteries.] *
29.) Chant Wars [in collaboration with the ensemble Dialogos, directed by Katarina Livljanic], (CD, 2005) * |
