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Building a Library, Medieval (era)
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Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
Gothic Voices chose to perform the hymns and sequences with great simplicity, alternating a single voice with unison voices over drones. Bingen's spellbinding melodies are clear and meditative,... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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her melodic lines hover, dip and glide like some supernaturally graceful bird, and those vertiginous swoops in pitch, executed to perfection by the seven-voice female choir, never fail to thrill. —
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Building a Library, April 2016, First Choice
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Special offer. Hildegard von Bingen: Vox Cosmica
RecommendedArianna Savall (singer & harp)
Hirundo Maris
the performances are startlingly beautiful and free and the arrangements endlessly creative —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations
RecommendedHymns, Sequences, Antiphons, Responds
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Hildegard of Bingen was especially gifted and richly deserves this moving tribute from Naxos. —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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