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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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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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The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. 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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Hildegard of Bingen: A Feather On the Breath of God
Gothic Voices, Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christopher Page
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There have been many recordings of Hildegard’s works but here Grace Davidson, singing alone, unfolds a tapestry of sounds filled with exceptional purity, mellifluous continuity and a focused... —
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This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and repertoire – it’s a lunchtime recital rather than a full evening’s commitment, something to send... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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It might not be to purists’ taste, but the disc evokes hypnotic atmosphere...Reverb gives the impression of an ecclesiastical setting (though the programme was recorded in London’s Henry Wood... —
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