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

• 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).

Read more about the Hildegard von Bingen project

• 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

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

13 April 2010
Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany
The Rheingold Curse

19 June 2010
Montalbâne Festival, Germany
Fragments for the End of Time

24 September 2010
Cité de la Musique, Paris
The Rheingold Curse

See full concert schedule

News

Visions of Paradise

In September 2009 a new film about the life of Hildegard von Bingen, directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa, was released in Germany. More

Interview with Benjamin Bagby

WNYC, New York Public Radio, aired an interview with the ‘Beowulf’ performer, B. Bagby. Listen to the show

Beowulf on DVD

Benjamin Bagby’s legendary performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (part I) recorded live in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Visit the Beowulf website