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).

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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

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

28 October 2011
Early Music In Columbus, USA
Chant Wars

13, 14, 15 January 2012
Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris, France
Frankish Phantoms

25, 26 February 2012
Da Camera of Houston, USA
Fragments for the End of Time

See full concert schedule

News

Between Music and Story-telling

In the context of a performance by Sequentia of The Rheingold Curse at the Radovljica Early Music Festival (Slovenia) in August, 2011, Benjamin Bagby spoke with Katarina Šter. Read the English original version of the interview here

Bagby and Rodenkirchen on WDR3

In June, 2011, Benjamin Bagby and Norbert Rodenkirchen were interviewed by journalist Anna Austrup for a Sequentia 'Portrait' broadcast in the West German Radio's prestigious 3rd program, in conjunction with a live broadcast concert in Cologne's 'Romanesque Summer' concerts series.
Listen to the recorded interview (in German)

2011 Thornton Scholarship

Laura Osterlund is the recipient of the 2011 Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship.
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Benjamin Bagby on WQXR

On January 23, 2011, Bagby joined host David Garland at New York's classical music station, WQXR, to share his insights on the challenges and pleasures of bringing medieval music to life, and to present recordings by Sequentia.
Listen to the recorded interview

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