Discography

Recordings by Genre

Note: Some of Sequentia’s CDs are no longer in print and available only from used-record dealers or on the internet. They are marked with an asterisk (*).

Monophonic vernacular song

• Spielmann und Kleriker (ca. 1200) *
• Spruchdichtung des 13. Jahrhunderts *
• Trouvères 1175-1300 *
• English Songs of the Middle Ages
• Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376-1445): Lieder / Songs *
• Dante and the Troubadours
• Vox Iberica III: El Sabio: Songs for King Alfonso X (1221-1284) *
• Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361): Motets and Chansons *
• With Voice & Pen

Latin monophonic and polyphonic song

• Boethius: Songs of Consolation
• Philippe le Chancelier (ca. 1165-1236)
• Visions from the Book *
• Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361): Motets and Chansons *
• Vox Iberica I: Sons of Thunder / Music for St. James the Apostle *
• Vox Iberica II: Codex Las Huelgas *
• Krone und Schleier: Musik aus Mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern
• With Voice & Pen
• Shining Light: Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.) *
• Aquitania: Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.) *
• Chant Wars: The Carolingian ‘Globalization’ of Liturgical Chant
• Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper
• Fragments for the End of Time / Endzeitfragmente

Sequentia’s Hildegard von Bingen Project

Initially in collaboration with the West German Radio Cologne (WDR Köln) Sequentia made a series of recordings of the complete works of Germany’s most important medieval composer, the abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).

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• Ordo Virtutum (1982) *
• Symphoniae / Spiritual Songs
• Canticles of Ecstasy
• Voice of the Blood
• O Jerusalem
• Saints
• Ordo Virtutum (1998)
• Visions of Paradise: a Hildegard von Bingen Anthology
• Hildegard von Bingen: Celestial Hierarchy

Music-drama projects

• Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum
• Bordesholmer Marienklage (ca. 1475) *
• Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meissen, (d. 1318): The Celestial Woman *
• Edda: Myths from Medieval Iceland
• The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Revenge from the Medieval Icelandic Edda

Reconstructions of lost musical repertoires

• Edda: Myths from Medieval Iceland
• The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Revenge from the Medieval Icelandic Edda
• Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper
• Beowulf
• Fragments for the End of Time / Endzeitfragmente

Upcoming Concerts

22 August 2024
Brauweiler, Germany (Abteikirche St. Nikolaus Brauweiler), 7.30 pm
Musen der Sphären (World Premiere)

24 October 2024
Prague, University of Prague (Boethius 150th anniversary)
Boethius - Songs of Consolation (Quartet)

14 February 2025
Kulturzentrum Peterskirche, Kempen
Musen der Sphären

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News

Benjamin Bagby's teaching activities in 2019

In March 2019, Benjamin will give two weekend courses on the solo songs of Philippe le Chancelier (d. 1236). The courses are being hosted by the Centre de Musique Médiévale de Paris. Dates: 9-10 and 30-31 March.
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After retiring from his teaching position at the University of Paris - Sorbonne, where he taught between 2005 and 2018 in the professional masters program, Benjamin Bagby continues to travel widely in 2019 to teach practical workshops for young professionals:

Folkwang Universität der Künste (Essen-Werden, Germany).
Benjamin has joined the faculty of this renowned masters program for liturgical chant performance and medieval music. The dates of his courses in 2019: 5-7 April; 26-28 April; 17-19 May; 30 May–01 June.
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For the second year in a row, Benjamin will teach an intensive course in the 8th International Course on Medieval Music Performance (Besalú, Spain): Songs of the troubadours (for singers and instrumentalists).
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Amherst Early Music Festival (Connecticut College, New London CT) 21-28 July:
An intensive course on the solo cansos of the Occitan troubadours, with a focus on songs from the great Milan songbook Bibl. Ambr. R71 sup. (for singers and instrumentalists).
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