Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
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Composer: Hildegard von BingenPerformer: Catherine King
Composer: Catherine King
Performer: Emily Van Evera
Performer: Sister Germaine Fritz
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-11-01
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
- Praise for the Mother [O Virga Ac Diadema]
- Only the Devil Laughed
- Vision [O Euchari in Leta Via]
- Song to the Mother [O Virdissima Virga]
- Living Light [Instrumental]
- Wherever [Unde Quocumque]
- For the Virgin [O Frondens Virga]
- For the Creator [O Quam Mirabilis]
- This Hornorable Fame [Deus Enim Rorem]
- Anointing [Instrumental]
- For the Trinity [Laus Trinitati]
- Chalice [O Vas Nobile]
- Divine Love [Karitas Habundat]
- Flower Gleams [Hodie Aperuit]
- From This Wicked Fall [Cum Erubuerint]
- Living Fountain
- Vision [Full Length]
Music reviews of Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
Music Review: Varied yet true
Rating: 5 Stars
I think all of these reviews are right. I have several recording from the purist classical perspective attempting to convey the mind and spirt of Hildegard at the time. I also rediscovered Richard Souther, whose music I enjoy. Hearing the samples here tells me one thing. I am going to buy this. Like one review said, I too believe Hildegard would use synthesizers and I love rhythm. All that being said, check out Garmarna if you want an interesting Viking Rock with a trance twist to the whole endeavor of her music. Trance what? Spiritual is the focus and the paths are varied. This one caught the essence too.
Description of Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
JH129 Ships Within 24 Hours - Satisfaction Guaranteed!"Vision--The Music of Hildegard von Bingen"? Make that "Hildegard--the Dance Remix." (Yes, it has been used on the dance floor of at least one New York City nightclub.) What else can you call it when Richard Souther takes the stark, ecstatic plainchant of the 12th-century abbess and adds heavily produced electronic trance-and-dance tracks? Souther's additions aren't bad in themselves--they are a bit New Age-y, yet danceable in a druggy 3:00-a.m. kind of way--but slather them over Hildegard's spare, intense chant melodies and the effect is perverse, if not just silly. Don't blame poor Emily van Evera--she is a fine interpreter of Hildegard, and EMI simply asked her to record some unaccompanied solo tracks of the abbess's music and send in the tapes; she had no idea what was going to be done with them until this disc came out with her name on it. This shows up in the final product: the gently fluid pulse van Evera applied to Hildegard's music (which would make perfect sense in the a cappella performance she thought she was giving) feels completely disconnected from the rigid rhythms inherent in Souther's electronic accompaniment. Now, there are a number of customer reviews, below, from listeners who like this title a great deal--have a look at them, check out the sound clips, and by all means get this title if you're interested. But, if you're curious about Hildegard, go to the recording that made her famous eight centuries after her death: A Feather on the Breath of God. --Matthew Westphal
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