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
- Only the Devil Laughed
- Vision
- Song to the Mother
- Living Light,The
- Wherever
- For the Virgin
- For the Creator
- This Honorable Fame
- Anointing,The
- For the Trinity
- Chalice,The
- Divine Love
- Flower Gleams,The
- From This Wicked Fall
- Living Fountain
- Vision [Full Length]
Music reviews of Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
Music Review: Interesting experiment, mixed success.
Rating: 3 Stars
Richard Souther's electronic, sometimes techno arrangement/accompaniment of Hildegard's pure and intense melodies is an experiment that works well for certain pieces (Virga ac Diadema, O Frondens Virga, O Euchari in Leta Via) but fails for others.
In any case the voice and performance of Emily Van Evera is very uplifting, even if the final product is not exactly what she was expecting.
Description of Vision: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
"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 WestphalGeneral CDs
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