Hildegard von Bingen: O Jerusalem

CD (total time 67:30)

Recorded October 1995 in the church of St. Pantaleon, Köln (D)

Released 1997 by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / BMG Classics (05472773532) in co-production with WDR Köln

Booklet 55 pp.

 

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).

For this large-scale recording, centered around music for the dedication of Hildegard’s new church on the Rupertsberg, Sequentia integrated the medieval bells of Bamberg Cathedral (D), as well as ensembles of women’s (10) and men’s voices (6) and medieval fiddle, harp and flute.