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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Standing with Ukraine – the blood of innocents

As I work on a new revisiting for Project Hildegard, the people of Ukraine are very much in my thoughts. I share a previous piece from this project here, as it seems to me to be very appropriate: o rex noster – the clouds weep Our king is prompt to receive the blood of the […]

Project Hildegard #37(2)

Here is o orzchis ecclesia – the shining jewel, my latest revisited chant. #hildegardvonbingen #linguaignota #chantrevisited For more about this project visit www.penelopeturner.com/project-hildegard/ or listen on my Soundcloud account to all the chants so far revisited. The text of this interesting antiphon includes five of Hildegard’s own made-up words from her Lingua Ignota. For my setting I have included […]

Project Hildegard #37

This is a very interesting little antiphon – not so such much for its subject matter or musical line (though this is as beautiful as usual!), but because the text includes five of Hildegard’s own made-up words from her Lingua Ignota (bolded in the translation below). #hildegardvonbingen #chant #facsimile For more about this project visit www.penelopeturner.com/project-hildegard/ or […]

A first review of Hildegard Revisited!

On Saturday December 18, 2021, La Noeva sang in concert as part of the Printemps musicale de Silly in Belgium. The first part of the programme featured six pieces from my project Hildegard Revisited – works that were written specially for the voices of La Noeva. It was the first time that these six pieces have been […]

Merry Christmas…

and a Happy New Year!