Here is spiritus sanctus, an antiphon for the holy spirit. It is destined soon to be revisited by me as the last in my six-voice a cappella series written specially for the medieval/contemporary female vocal ensemble La Noeva. I will keep you posted! spiritus sanctus #hildegardvonbingen #chant #facsimile Holy spirit, life that gives life and […]
Today is the one year anniversary of my Project Hildegard – a project to record and revisit all 77 liturgical chants written by the late, great, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). My very first home recording was made on March 18th, 2020 and yesterday I posted my 32nd setting in the series. I began the project […]
Here is my setting of Hildegard’s hymn for Saint Mathias (aka “the giant”). Perhaps appropriately, this is rather a giant piece, with over eight minutes of chant. Writing a supportive and interesting accompaniment was a challenge – largely because some of my ideas got in the way of the chant and made it too busy. […]
Between the drilling and the banging of next door’s renovation project and the clicks and buzzes of my imperfect recording set-up, I post a hymn for Saint Matthias. Until 1969, the feast day of Saint Matthias was today – February 24th (it was then moved to May 14th so as not to fall within Lent). […]
And here, after several days head down in the zone :-), the votive antiphon for the VM o tu illustrata, set for five cellos and three voices. #hildegardvonbingen #chantrevisited #ilovemycello o tu illustrata – divine brightness O you, illuminated by the divine brightness, bright virgin mary, infused by god’s word, how your womb flowered by […]
