On February 7th and 8th, I will be performing with ensemble Ut Sol and Marianne Noordink in Winter, a concert that combines music by Hildegard von Bingen, with Yiddish songs, and Sufi melodies. Winter emphasizes our shared human experience, tracing our journey through the darkness to the new light. On February 7th, we are in […]
Just in time for Christmas, an ecstatic antiphon by Hildegard Von Bingen about love and the joy of salvation 🙂 O eterne deus O eternal God, please burn now with such love that we may become those limbs that you made in the same love as you begot your Son at the first dawn, before […]
I have finished my revisiting of O gloriosissimi lux vivens angeli! It is scored for full choir a cappella, with a semi-chorus accompanying the solo voice for some passages. (I have used a cello to play the bass line, just because I can’t sing that low!) I was inspired not only by the text, but […]
Continuing with Hildegard von Bingen’s “Scivias” chants, here is number 3 – an antiphon to the angels: O gloriosissimi lux vivens angeli. Such an interesting chant this one. It starts on E, in Phrygian mode, but migrates to Dorian mode (on D) in the middle, coming back to Phrygian only at the very end. In […]
I’m happy to announce that Ensemble Caldemia will be performing The Living Light, a concert of medieval and contemporary music around the music of Hildegard von Bingen, in Brussels on Sunday October 19, 2025 at 6pm in the intimate, beautiful acoustic of St Andrew’s Brussels. Tickets are on sale here (reservation is advised).
