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Lee Prosser, JazzReview.com
"There is much to admire about SIORA, including brilliant solo work and group harmony."

Product Description
A jazz journey in 7 languages (Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Farsi, Hebrew, and 3 provocative original selections in English). Guest artists include Howard Levy (Bela Fleck) on harmonica and flute, John Swana (Criss Cross) on trumpet, and Ralph Bowen (Criss Cross) on flute. This CD is a collaboration of Grammy-nominated producer Paul Wickliffe with co-leaders Phyllis Chapell (vocals) and Dan Kleiman (piano).

Blending world music and contemporary jazz into a soundscape that needs no translation, SIORA takes you on a journey of the soul, touching down in Rio, Paris, Mazer-e-Sharif and points beyond.

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Vis-a-Vis,Siora,Miowan Records,A multi-cultural jazz journey in 7 languages led by pianist Dan Kleiman and vocalist Phyllis Chapell, that includes music of the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and features guest artists Howard Levy (Bela Fleck), John Swana, and Ralph Bowen.,Int'l & World Music,Pop

Average customer rating: Different -- delightfully so Simply awe inspiring and amazing Ecstatic Music, Ecstatically Performed. canticles of Ecstay Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstacy

Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music $7.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Feather on the Breath of God Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations Luminous Spirit ASIN: B000001TYF Release Date: 1994-12-13

Tracks:

1. O vis aeternitatis - Sequentia
2. Nunc aperuit nobis
3. Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit
4. Cum processit factura digiti Dei
5. Alma Redemptoris Mater
6. Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
7. Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vite
8. O ignis spiritus Paracliti
9. Caritas habundat in omnia
10. O virgia mediatrix
11. O virdissima virga, Ave
12. Instrumental
13. O Pastor Animarum
14. O tu suavissima virga
15. O choruscans stellarum
16. O nobilissima viriditas

Amazon.com

Although Hildegard von Bingen's music has been around for 900 years--and recordings of her music for decades--it seems that only now, as we approach the turn of another millennium, the time is right for the world to pay attention. In this first-rate traversal of her music--the most popular of several volumes released by the early-music ensemble Sequentia--we hear music that resulted from Hildegard's legendary visions, which often included song texts that she subsequently collected and dispensed to her religious community of women. As rendered here by the voices and instruments of Sequentia, her music invokes an unobscured sense of mystery, conforming to Hildegard's belief that music was our bridge to the harmonies of the heavens. Whether or not we're experiencing that "heavenly harmony" here, the simple, direct, beautifully turned melodies, sung by pure, finely tuned, warm-colored women's voices, often eerily accompanied by an instrumental drone, is heavenly enough. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Different -- delightfully so.......2007-08-03

I didn't get a chance to read all the reviews posted for this album, so if someone already said this I apologize for the repetition. Are you aware that this is the de facto first opera ever written in Europe? Hildegard was a visionary in so many ways! Her music is very different and unique when compared to other operas. I highly recommend it.

Simply awe inspiring and amazing.......2007-05-20

One would have to listen to this music to understand the power it will hold over you. Ethereal and almost eery, yet full of power, grace and triumph, this will be a mainstay in your collection. The only thing resembling it that the mass public would be aware of is Gregorian Chant, although this is it's own beast and so much more. It's not expensive, buy it and see for yourself.

Ecstatic Music, Ecstatically Performed........2007-05-13

I had first heard this performance of St. Hildegard of Bingen's "Canticles of Ecstasy" on sound cassette and loved it.

The music is sublime. The female voices are heavenly, without a hint of sentimentality.

When you listen to "Canticles of Ecstasy" you will know how this medieval nun and composer felt about things.

Caution. They could make a believer of you.

canticles of Ecstay.......2007-03-23

This is a very good CD I highly recomend it if you love chant. I am glad to have it in my collection.

Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstacy.......2006-07-25

This CD will transport you to another space and truly put you in touch with the sublime! If you are a massage therapist,I recommend it for use during your sessions. Anyone can use it as part of his or her meditative spiritual practice regardless of your particular faith.

Average customer rating: The Ars subtileor rules.

Ars subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dufay | Dufay, Guillaume | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music $9.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Dufay, Guillaume | ( D ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Le siècle de l'Ars nova: A Revolution in the Late Middle Ages Troubadours: Minnesänger and Other Courtly Arts Century 1/Various L'émergence de la musique instrumentale A History of Music - Century (volume) 5 - La Naissance de la Polyphonie (The Birth of Polyphony) ASIN: B000ARHNDU Release Date: 2005-12-13

Customer Reviews:

The Ars subtileor rules........2006-11-21

Even though the title is a slight misnomer as more than half of the tracks are post-ars subtileor, this is an absolutely marvellous CD. Starting with Philipoctus de Caserta (ca.1370) and ending with Antoine Busnoys (d.1492), this CD surveys some of the best polyphonic secular and sacred music of the post-Ars nova Middle Ages.
The pieces are superbly performed by some of the very best early musicians of our day including the Orlando Consort, Ensemble organum and the Hilliard Ensemble. I highly recommend this CD for pleasure or instruction.
Dr. Joseph Baldassarre
Professor of Music History
Boise State University

Average customer rating: LOVE IT! Beautiful rap This album is magic The Picasso of french rap Absolutely excellent !!!!!!

Ou Je Vis Shurik'n Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: L' Ecole du Micro D'Argent Meteque et Mat ...De la Planète Mars Si Dieu Veut KLR ASIN: B00004SQQX Release Date: 1999-07-15

Tracks:

1. Samurai
2. Ou Je Vis
3. Lef
4. Mon Clan
5. Jattends
6. Fugitif
7. Les Miens
8. Reves
9. Memoire
10. Esprit Anesthesie
11. Lettre
12. Oncleshe
13. Sur De Rien
14. Y'a Pas Le Cheix
15. Manifeste
16. Leve Mon Verre

Album Details

Marseille is in the House! after Meeting Incredible Success with his Rap Band Iam, Hip-hop Pioneer Goes Solo.

Customer Reviews:

LOVE IT!.......2007-04-09

I love this album. I don't know what the lyrics are about, but it has such a wonderful mood, almost like a late nite hype! get it.

Beautiful rap.......2005-08-14

Shurik'n is a member of the French rap group IAM, and this is his first solo album, and this album is poetic rap at its finest. He adds Japanese influence to his beats and rhythm, and a couple songs feature his brother, Faf Larage. I fully agree with another reviewer that Shurik'ns music speaks straight to the soul and heart, and as an artist, Shurik'n is truly magnificient, if not a genius. My favorite track on this album is 'Manifiste' with Akhenaton, but to be honest, just about every single track on this album is a bomb. 'J'attends', and 'Reves' are classics. You don't need to speak French to appreciate this album, although it does help to understand the lyrics. This album is such a great joy to listen to!

This album is magic.......2003-12-02

i recently obtained this album from a friend and i must say it is a magic album.. one you can listen to the whole way through and not get bored.. i dont understand the french language but the lyrics and beats flow so well together that it doesnt matter.... this album is a must for hip hop heads.....

The Picasso of french rap.......2003-01-05

Ive just recently obtained this album and its a must have album for anybody that wants authentic rap. U.S rap is often guilty of dropping lame beats but Shurik'n's beats accompanied with a touch of martial arts is the bomb. Fortunately i understand french after living there, however non-french speakers dont worry because the beats on this album will surely make you play the tracks over and over. Especially 'Lettre', 'Reves',and 'ou je vis'.

Absolutely excellent !!!!!!.......2001-05-18

This CD is so good, even if it was out 2 years ago it's still clearly excellent it gets every one say: "Yo, what a flow !" If tou are into Hip Hop and/or Martial Arts, you'll like the music and the lyrics about the ancient japanese art of war; Samurai... Check also for the album "La Garde" witch are Shurik'n and his brother Faf Larage !

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Mozart am Stein Vis-à-Vis Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; Poulenc: Organ Concerto; Barber: Toccata Festiva Saint-Saens Poulenc Devienne Milhaud Beethoven: String Quartets Opus 18 Nos. 2 & 3 Volodos Plays Liszt Handel - Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno ASIN: B000MGBTBQ Release Date: 2007-04-10

Tracks:

1. Modulierendes Praeludium KV 284a In C Major After B Major
2. I. Allegro
3. II. Adagio
4. III. Molto Presto
5. Modulierendes Praeludium KV Deest In F Major After E Minor
6. Fragment Eines Praeludiums KV624 (626a) Anh.I IN E Minor After C Major
7. 6 Variationen In F Major Uber Die Arie 'Salve Tu, Domine' Aus Der Aper 'I Filosofi Immaginarii' (Giovanni Paisiello) KV398 (416e)
8. I. Praeludium
9. II. Fuge
10. Improvisation Christine Schornsheim & Andres Staier
11. I. Allegro
12. II. Andante
13. III. Allegro Molto
14. 6 Deutsche Tanze KV509, Transkr. Fur Klavier

Average customer rating: good penumbral Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough: Funérailles Manufacturer: Stradivarius ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Octets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Septets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Brian Ferneyhough: Flurries; String Trio; In nomine a 3; Streichtrio; Incipits Brian Ferneyhough: Shadowtime Luigi Nono: Complete Works for Solo Tape Rihm: String Quartets Vol. 4 Music for Flute ASIN: B000GRUO6W Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. Funerailles I For 7 Strings And Harp
2. Bone Alphabet For Percussion
3. Unsichtbare Farben For Violin
4. Funerailles II For 7 Strings And Harp

Album Description

Born in 1943, Brian Ferneyhough is a renowned British composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. "A ceremony taking place behind a curtain or far away": thus Ferneyhough on the emotional setting for the two Funérailles composed between 1969 and 1980, although the title is deceptive because this music is not intended to be funereal in character, nor was the composer setting out to write anything programmatic. Rather, Ferneyhough appears bent on delving deeper into his compositional abilities and on discovering what he could do with sound material structured like a ritual, principally for the emotional response that it can draw. The Arditti Quartet enjoys a worldwide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier twentieth century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. Their extensive discography now features well over one hundred CDs.

Customer Reviews:

good penumbral Ferneyhough.......2007-02-18

Ferneyhough's oeuvre has reached the performative platitude where you can sort and compare different recordings of identical works. The Parisians Ensemble Intercontemporain has long devoted their efforts to Ferneyhough's interesting webs of complexities, more like white ice sheets adhering to a window pane.You can here them the firtst recording on Erato of theses works.The two "Funerallies" are to be separated during live performances to sort the relative readings of similar materials. The intrusions of the Harp helps sharply define the string constitution. Most of this string music is well crafted with a rich diverse array of extended timbres occuring in fairly close proximity. You merely become absorbed into the sound of all of it. The scaled down chamber strings as well (As writing this work for a complete string orchestra), was a useful choice in the interesting results Ferneyhough achieves herein. One cannot help but think of Listz equally a purveyor of timbral virtuosic complexity, and Ferneyhough's interest also in the penumbral, the "shadows" of the lifeworld as becoming but more a "passing" of live life or energies,movements,arrays into states of stasis. The overwhelming complexity now seems more and more commonplace, yet one needs to look at what it all means within Fernyhough's sub-texts often he pursues the visuals arts a poet and a text to trigger instrumental discourse.Still the pure virtuosity allowed is a freedom we can still hold within the liberal adminstered world.

Irving Arditti is no stranger to this music, long a committed devotee of the cause of the complex web of inter-turnings of rapid fire timbral transformations, transmogrifications. Here he is allowed to render his skills a first chair,solo not as leader of the quartet. And he does give a "third person" reading always I think.(His Cage is abysmal in the other direction) There is no point in becoming too enraptured over complexity because it then leads to dangerous romanticized realizations. Here the sheer spontanaeity, the rhythmic freedom is wonderful to experience, where every particle of timbre is heard under Arditti's hands.The title "Invisible Colours" gives also a "third person" content to the proceedings, as if the linear arrays, and lynes mean something that is not self-evident simply from hearing the work, a concept must be engaged always for this music, it is far too difficult simply to listen when therte are more interesting sub-texts alive and workable that gives the music its inherent meanings. We often complain that we cannot posit a meaning with post-modernities vagaries of concept, where the concpet does come first before a note is written. The concept the subjectivized unfetter hero of complexities cause is here. Likewise the heroic "Bone Alphabet, but a but more practical work for a working percussionist. The player is allowed to select the six instruments utilized. Steven Shick (see his wonderful book "The Percussionist's Art")has well written about this work and the work necessary to play it,absorb it, (take into one's soul)and memorize it. The results here are threadbare beauty,a thud, a cluck, a tap, very beautiful in an unpretencious way.This is simply not the case for all percussion solos if you care to survey the literature. You need allow the timbres to be free, and the rhythmic freedom here also helps set free the timbres from the "tyrant" meter.Although meter is indeed never let go, there is a quite strict agenda at work with irrational gradations of quintuplets set against triplets and oct-tuplets.One can listen to this forever.The contrapuntal conundrums quickly mount snowballs gentle into imperceptible arrays for contemplation from the lifeworld.Swabs of wonderful timbres are here yet slowly given over in gradations. This is the most interesting solo percussion piece in some time.

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Va Vis et Deviens Various Artists Manufacturer: Naive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007XT4UC Release Date: 2007-06-11

Average customer rating: It's a gem! Review: Isabel I: Reina de Castilla Not always historically accurate, but fabulous performances

Isabel I: Reina de Castilla Hesperion XXI , Daniele Carnovich , Canciero de Montecassino Anonymous , El Cancionero de Colombina Anonymous , Johannes Cornago , Guillaume Dufay , Juan del Encina , Pedro de Escobar , Luys de Narvaez , Pedro de Tordesillas , Francisco de la Torre , Arabic-Andalusian Traditional , Sephardic Traditional , Turkish Traditional , Carlos Verardi , Jordi Savall , Carlos Mena , Andrew Lawrence-King , Begona Olavide , Luca Guglielmi , Pedro Estevan , Arianna Savall , Montserrat Figueras , and Miguel Bernal Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dufay | Dufay, Guillaume | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Carlos V Villancicos y Danzas Criollas Music for the Spanish Kings Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Músicas [Hybrid SACD] Altre Follie, 1500-1750 ASIN: B0006SSNO6 Release Date: 2004-12-14

Tracks:

1. Exultat Caelum Laudibus (Vesper's Hymn) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
2. Marcha Turca - Various Artists
3. Toccata (CMC 68) - Various Artists
4. Dinos, Madre Del Donsel (Villancico) (CMC 90) - Various Artists
5. Je Ne Vis Oncques (CMM 46) - Andrew Lawrence-King
6. La Spagna: Danza Alta (Instrumental) (CMP 321) - Hesperion XXI
7. Muy Crueles Bozes Dan (Villancico) (CMC 6) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
8. Pavana (Pues Que Jamas Olvidaros) (CMP 30) - Various Artists
9. Patres Nostri Peccaverunt (Hymn) (CMM 2) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
10. Viva El Gran Re Don Fernando (Instrumental) - Various Artists
11. El Que Rige Y El Regido (Villancico) (CMP 275) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
12. Paseabase El Rey Moro (Romance) - Various Artists
13. Levanta Pascual (Villancico) (CMP 184) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
14. Lavava Y Suspirava (Romance) - Montserrat Figueras
15. Mappamundi - Various Artists
16. Franceses, Por Que Rrazon? (Villancico) (CMP 424) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
17. Sanctus (CMC 47) - Various Artists
18. Triste Espana Sin Ventura (Romance) (CMP 83) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya
19. Cancion En Ritmo Quddan De La Nuba Gribt Al Hussein De Marruecos - B. Olavide
20. Requiem Aeternam (Gradual) - La Capella Reial De Catalunya

Customer Reviews:

It's a gem!.......2006-11-21

Interesting mix of styles at work here. Paseabase El Rey Moro is particularly pleasing. Montserrat lends true feeling to this piece as she sings the part of the Moorish king. Her recitation of the old man's 'Dutch uncling' is unexpected and equally passionate. All this is punctuated by a musical style that never loses its Moorish influence but changes, oh so subtly, into a more 'European' mode. In direct contrast, Begona's performance of Canció en ritmo Quddan de la Nuba Gribt: Al Hussein de Marruecos is equally compelling. The voices are married perfectly to the styles of the music. In short, if you like Iberian music of this period (circa 1492), get the album. You will not be disappointed.

Review: Isabel I: Reina de Castilla.......2005-07-27

This is a meticulously designed and recorded compilation that provides a delightful introduction to music of the late 15th and early 16th centuries . The CD includes both instrumental and vocal compositions that are performed with considerable expertise and verve. The package contains an illustrated booklet that includes an essay on the history of the period and full lyrics but, alas, is rather weak on details regarding the music other than to place it in historical context.

Not always historically accurate, but fabulous performances.......2005-05-23

This recording presents a selection of music from the time of Isabella of Castile (1451-1504), organised to present a hypothetical illustration in sound of the main events of her reign. Connoisseurs will be familiar with a number of these pieces, many from previous Savall recordings (Palacio, Encina, Colombina discs). Alongside the Spanish works (villancicos, romances, sacred music) are examples of Turkish and Sephardic music, and also a Dufay chanson.

As on many other recordings by this ensemble, historical accuracy is secondary to an overall aesthetic result, and it is perhaps not difficult to understand why Savall's approach has ruffled certain musicologists. Where most of the works recorded here would have probably been performed by a small group of musicians (often a cappella), in these performances there is a wide range of instruments used in addition to the voices (including shawm, cornett and sackbuts). Four tracks have 'composed' introductions [tracks 1, 4, 10, 13], whilst Narvaez's romance [track 12] is transformed from a standard example of the genre into a hybridised Hispanic-Moorish lament.

On the other hand, it is equally apparent why this group have been greeted with such unanimous international acclaim. There is, after all, a significant difference between a sound recording and a musicological article - something which is not always as obvious as it should be in some of the more "correct" renditions of this repertory. Furthermore, there are a number of tracks which are definitely plausible [tracks 5, 8, 17, 20], as well as some which frankly do not stretch extant evidence - direct and indirect - too much [tracks 4, 15, 18; a thorough and satisfactory investigation of the political villancicos and romances - tracks 7, 10, 13, 16, 18 - has yet to be undertaken...why and in what contexts would such works be performed only by small forces, given their obvious exaggerated political overtones? Would Ferdinand and Isabella really have heard, for example, Encina's lament to their dead son [18] performed by no more than four singers in the elite isolation of their private chambers...?]

But what undoubtedly sets this recording apart from so many others of this repertory is the phenomenally high standard of these performances - unsurprisingly given the personnel line-up [Begona Olavide, Montserrat Figueras, Carlos Mena, Jean-Pierre Canihac, Markus Tapio, Andrew Lawrence-King...etc]. Given that so many tracks could be singled out to support this observation - not to mention the musicians themselves - it perhaps only remains to be said that this is without doubt one of the most incredible recordings of Cancionero songs available.

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Hildegard von Bingen: "O Vis Aeternitatis" Vesper in der Abtei St. Hildegard Manufacturer: Ars Musici ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002K1S Release Date: 2000-08-05

Tracks:

1. Eroffnungsvers: 'Deus In Adiutorium'
2. I. Antiphon: 'O Aeterne Deus' Mit Ps 109/110
3. II. Antiphon: 'Spiritus Sanctus' Mit Ps 110/111
4. III. Antiphon: 'O Magne Pater' Mit Ps 129/130
5. IV. Antiphon: 'Caritas Abundat' Mit Ps 132/133
6. Lesung Offb. 21, 1-5a
7. Responsorium: 'O Vis Aeternitatis
8. Sequenz: 'O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti'
9. Antiphon Zum Magnificat: 'O Quam Mirabilis' Magnificat
10. Schlussgebete Kyrie & Pater Noster
11. Sequenz De Sancto Disibodo: 'O Praesul Verae Civitatis'
12. Sequenz De Sancto Ruperto: 'O Ierusalem, Aurea Civitas'

Average customer rating: Heavenly music - amazing authentic Renaissance recipes! An irresistible combination of great food and music.

Food, Wine, & Song - Music and Feasting in Renaissance Europe Orlando Consort Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi (Fra) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dufay | Dufay, Guillaume | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Machaut | Machaut, Guillaume de | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballads | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Rondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Orlando Consort | ( O ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry (Medieval Gardens in Music) Medieval Christmas Guillaume de Machaut: Motets De Vitry & Ars Nova: 14th Cent Motets The Toledo Summit: Early 16th c. Spanish & Flemish songs & motets ASIN: B00005OB1Z Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

1. In paupertatis predio-Anonymous, Notre - Dame de Paris
2. Chanconette/Ainc voire/A la cehminee/Par verite - Anonymous, Montpellier Codex
3. Prenes l'arbre/He resveille toi Robin - Adam de la Halle
4. Nes qu'on porroit - Guillaume de Machaut
5. Apparuerunt apostolos v. Spiritus Domini - Anonymous, Fountaines Abbey 1st Manuscript
6. Nowell, Nowell: The Boares head - Richard Smert
7. Si quis amat - Anonymous
8. Cacciando per gustar - Antonio Zachara da Teramo
9. Canto de' cardon - Anonymous, Florentine Carnival Song
10. Donna di dentro/Dammene un pocho - Heinrich Isaac
11. Canto di donne maestre di far cacio - Anonymous, Florentine Carnival Song
12. Adieu cs bons vins de Lannoys - Guillaume Dufay
13. Je ne vis onques - Gilles Binchois
14. Sile fragor - Loyset Compere
15. La plus grant chiere - Anonymous
16. La tricotea - Anonymous
17. Ave color vini clari - Juan Ponce
18. Oy comamos y bebamos - Juan del Encina
19. Quen tem farelos - Anonymous
20. Von Eyren - Matthias Greiter
21. Von edler Art - Ludwig Senfl
22. Trinkt und singt - Anonymous

Customer Reviews:

Heavenly music - amazing authentic Renaissance recipes!.......2005-06-08

This is an absolutely superb CD in every respect. The excellent selection of songs encompasses some of the finest composers of the Late Middle Ages-Renaissance including earlier masters such as Machaut, Binchois, Dufay as well as some exceptional composers of the Prima Prattica such as Isaac and his pupil Senfl. Compositions from France, England, Spain/Portugal, Germany, Italy and Burgandy are all represented too. The Isaac chanson 'Donna di dentro' may well be my favorite of this whole CD.

Equally exciting is the fantastic recipe book that comes with the lavish booklet. I have many a cook book and I can tell you this is as good as any of them and an absolute must if you are a Renaissance music enthusiast. Just as many a great score has laid in museums gathering dust for centuries, so too have many cook books been forgotten and their recipes lost to time. The efforts of many reknown contemporary chefs have been employed to resurrect some of these gems. The food tastes like nothing I have ever tried before - like listening to Renaissance music for the first time. If feels like you have stuck your spoon and knife (forks were a later invention and no self-respecting HIP music lover would eat this food with one!) into a Renaissance still life picture of a lavish meal and started eating.

One suggestion: definitely try the 'orange omelette for pimps and harlots'. Only thing routinely use one whole orange (peeled and put through a blender) AND a couple of tablespoons of a light non-bitter orange marmalade. Skip the extra added sugar and instead add some Cointreau to the mixture. Then serve hot with ice cream as a desert (desert omelettes are a sadly lost art), unless you feel that you HAVE to keep these strictly HIP because they didn't have ice cream in those days - make sure your favourite song from this CD is playing. You will think you have died and gone to heaven.

Hearing the spirit of the Renaissance is one thing but to also see it, taste it, smell it - now that's something else!!! I strongly suggest buying now as these sort of releases then to dissappear and if it does reappear the wonderful CD booklet with its recipes will likely be missing.

An irresistible combination of great food and music........2001-12-04

Food, Wine and Song is an irresistible combination of great food and music. I've even tried one of the recipes - the bread, almond and saffron pudding with a fig crust. It was delicious and preparing it while the CD played was inspiring. It was a perfect way to start this winter cooking season. The packaging is elegant!

Average customer rating: Ecstasy! A Collection to Treasure

900 Years - Hildegard von Bingen / Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen , and Sequentia Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Box Sets | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000B9MS Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

1. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O vis aeternitatis
2. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Nunc aperuit nobis
3. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit
4. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Cum processit factura digiti Dei
5. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Alma Redemptoris Mater
6. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
7. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vite
8. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O ignis spiritus Paracliti
9. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Caritas habundat in omnia
10. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O virgia mediatrix
11. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O virdissima virga, Ave
12. Canticles Of Ecstasy: Instrumental Piece
13. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O Pastor Animarum
14. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O tu suavissima virga
15. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O choruscans stellarum
16. Canticles Of Ecstasy: O nobilissima viriditas

Tracks:

1. Voice Of The Blood: O rubor sanguinis
2. Voice Of The Blood: Favus distillans
3. Voice Of The Blood: Laus Trinitati
4. Voice Of The Blood: In Matutinis Laudibus: 1. Studium Divinitatis; 2. Unde quocumque; 3. De patria; 4. Deus enim; 5. Aer enim volat; 6. Et ideo puellae; 7. Deus enim rorem; 8. Sed Diabolus
5. Voice Of The Blood: O Ecclesia
6. Voice Of The Blood: Instrumental Piece
7. Voice Of The Blood: O aeterne Deus
8. Voice Of The Blood: O dulcissime amator
9. Voice Of The Blood: Rex noster promptus est
10. Voice Of The Blood: O cruor sanguinis
11. Voice Of The Blood: Cum vox sanguinis
12. Voice Of The Blood: Instrumental Piece
13. Voice Of The Blood: O virgo Ecclesia
14. Voice Of The Blood: Nunc guadeant materna
15. Voice Of The Blood: O orzchis Ecclesia

Tracks:

1. O Jerusalem
2. O Jerusalem: Quia felix puericia - Magnificat - Quia felix puericia
3. O Jerusalem: O felix apparicio
4. O Jerusalem: O beatissime Ruperte
5. O Jerusalem: Instrumental Piece
6. O Jerusalem: O tu illustrata
7. O Jerusalem: Cum erubuerint
8. O Jerusalem: O frondens virga - Gloria Patri; Ave, generosa
9. O Jerusalem: O quam preciosa
10. O Jerusalem: O ignee spiritus
11. O Jerusalem: Instrumental Piece
12. O Jerusalem: O quam magnam miraculum est

Tracks:

1. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O quam mirabilis est
2. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O pulchrae facies
3. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O virga ac diadema purpurae regis
4. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Instrumental Piece
5. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O clarissima mater
6. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Instrumental Piece
7. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Spiritui Sancto honor sit
8. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O virtus sapientiae
9. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O lucidissima Apostolorum turba
10. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Instrumental Piece
11. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O successores fortissimi leonis
12. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): O vos, felices radices
13. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Instrumental Piece
14. Symphoniae (Spiritual Songs): Vos flores rosarum

Tracks:

1. Ordo Virtutum: Prologue: Qui sunt hi, qui ut nubes?
2. Ordo Virtutum: Processional Of Embodied Souls
3. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 1: O nos peregrine sumus
4. Ordo Virtutum: Anima Processional
5. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 1 (Cont'd): O dulcis divinitas
6. Ordo Virtutum: Anima Processional
7. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 1 (Cont'd): O gravis labor
8. Ordo Virtutum: Instrumental Dance - Tanz
9. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 2: Ego Humilitas
10. Ordo Virtutum: Instrumental Dance

Tracks:

1. Ordo Virtutum: Interlude: Symphonia: O quam magnum miraculum
2. Ordo Virtutum: Interlude: Symphonia: O felix anima
3. Ordo Virtutum: Interlude: Symphonia: O quam mirabilis
4. Ordo Virtutum: Instrumental lament - Klageweise
5. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 3: Heu! Heu! nos virtutes plangamus
6. Ordo Virtutum: Scene 4: Que es, aut unde venis?
7. Ordo Virtutum: Finale: In principio

Tracks:

1. Saints: To God The Father: O magne pater
2. Saints: To Saint Boniface: O Bonifaci
3. Saints: To Saint Disibodus: O mirum admirandum; Domini est terra
4. Saints: Instrumental Piece
5. Saints: O viriditas digiti dei
6. Saints: O beata infantia; Domine Dominus noster
7. Saints: O felix anima
8. Saints: Instrumental Piece
9. Saints: O presul vere civitatis

Tracks:

1. Saints: To Saint Maximinus: Columba aspexit
2. Saints: To Saint Maximinus: Instrumental Piece
3. Saints: To Saint Ursula : O Ecclesia
4. Saints: To Saint Ursula : Spiritui Sancto
5. Saints: To Saint Mathias: Mathias, sanctus per electionem
6. Saints: To The Holy Widows: O pater omnium
7. Saints: To Saint Eucharius: O Euchari, columba virtutem illius
8. Saints: To Saint Eucharius: O Euchari, in leta via ambulasti

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

For all the effort put behind the Hildegard von Bingen revival in the past decade, no one has been as persistent as Sequentia. They capped their Hildegard cycles in 1998 with the two-CD set Saints and then this eight-CD collection. Nowhere else can you get such a focused study, showing exemplary growth in vision and polyphonic presentation. The music isn't flashy, but it's inventive in methodical steps and an abiding sense of vocal textures that sounds multidimensionally complex and still categorically engrossing. --Andrew Bartlett

Amazon.com

Founded in 1977 in Cologne by Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby, Sequentia set out in the early 1990s to document the entire catalog of Hildegard Von Bingen's music. They've completed the Hildegard cycle, and this eight-CD box collects the results in a solid, handsome cube--perfect for the bookshelf. The beauty of the music is undeniable and has wowed listeners since Canticles of Ecstasy set an international community of listeners on a path of discovery in 1994. The big bonus now is that you can skip over the periods of wowed seduction that will follow the inaugural listen, and take in the entire collection of single- and double-CD issues Sequentia has devoted to Hildegard's music. The recordings (and obviously the repertoire) are not particularly new, of course, but Sequentia has taken Hildegard to places no previous interpreter reached. Firstly, the group has been absolutely methodical with Hildegard, reaching always for the goal of a large collection of CDs by the 900-year anniversary of the composer's birth. Second, they've refined and perfected their take on Hildegard since first presenting this music almost 20 years ago. They've found smoother lines of execution--not to make the music in any way easier for listeners but rather in better proportion to Hildegard's philosophically well-proportioned vantage on music, spirituality, and life. Thus we have the collection of spiritual songs, Symphoniae, which relay earthly and celestial being to the polyphony of multiple voices and musical threads woven into the songs. We also have the breathlessly beautiful two CDs of Ordo Virtutum, a not-uncommon near-operatic corollary to medieval morality plays. This collection allows both newbies and committed fans the opportunity to work their way through hours and hours of musical bliss. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Ecstasy!.......2001-04-28

This is a wonderful collection of CDs. The early music includes plain song, male and female chant, and instrumental pieces. The package is gorgeous with Bizantine fresco art work on each jewel case. For those contemplating purchase, the group is composed of previous releases: Canticles of Estacy, Voice of Blood, O Jerusalem, Symphoniae, Ordo Virtutum, and Saints. These total $117.28 if you buy them individually so there is a real savings here. Those who are new to early music are in for a treat. This is music so old it is new, and as has been said, could be music of 900 years into the future. It is so other worldly, you are easily put into a meditative state. There is enough music here to fill your whole day with ecstasy.

A Collection to Treasure.......2000-08-16

When my daughter was born about a year ago I initiated the project of collecting some of the "better music" for her, fearing that if she was only exposed to my preferred music she'd end up being a bass player in a biker band someday. I started with the Mozart piano concertos, then went to lots of Bach and other Baroque masterpieces, even ventured into some Wendy Carlos, with her "Turned On Bach." I cringe to think how much I've spent in the last year, although I must say that the investment has been worth every penny. We actually have neighbors occasionally knocking on our door wanting to know what the music is which we are playing. It seems there is an untapped market for higher music. Well, suffice it to say that I was linked to this "900 Years" set from some other CD which I was contemplating and for some reason I was tantilized, without really knowing exactly what to expect.

This music is divine, total heaven on plastic. It is prolonged euphoria. The ambience is so pervasive that it just seizes you, totally centers your focus, lifts your imagination. Without degenerating into too many additional cliches, let me just suggest that this music gives me a tremendous sense of well-being, a feeling which seems to be more elusive to me as the years go by.

I've only played it through two times in the past month since I received it, as it is quite lengthy and I don't want to desensitize myself to it. I listen to it in the morning when I'm first waking up. It brings me blissfully out of the twilight of my dreams into the vast possibilities for a new day. If one doesn't listen closely a superficial criticism may emerge that the CD's all sound similar. Play them again when you can focus more on the music and this concern will disappear. I will mention as well that if you don't have a one year old running your household, as I do, this music will be absolutely perfect for you and your favored one to listen to in front of the fireplace.

I don't have a sufficient command of the lexicon of this type of music to properly describe it to you: what comes to mind are floating feminine voices, clear resonant stringed instruments, it does indeed seems like the music of a thousand years ago, a thousand years from now. This is the music of eternity. I haven't yet read the substantive brochures which are enclosed respectively in each of the "jewel" cases, I'm afraid they may alter my interpretation of the music. If you're into that type of thing, however, I will mention that this is the best "packaged" box set I've yet purchased (of probably around 100). Each CD box has an outrageously beautiful piece of medieval art on it which perfectly compliments the music.

My daughter? She likes it, even she seems meditative when it plays. I envision it activating all types of neurological pathways in her adorable little head. I shall concede, however, that she is still cuter when she is dancing playfully to Metallica.

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