Canticles of Ecstasy: Difference between revisions

| Name cover = ''Canticles of Ecstasy''.jpg

| Typealt = cover

| Releasedvenue = 1993 =

| Genre genre = {{hlist| Sacred [[vocal music]], | [[plainchant]], | [[early music]]}}

| Length length = 72:53

| Label label = [[Deutsche Harmonia Mundi]]

| Producer producer = Klaus L. Neumann

| Last album prev_title = ''Oswald von Wolkenstein: Songs''<br />(1993)

| Next album next_title = ''Voice of the Blood''<br />(1994)

'''''Canticles of Ecstasy''''' is an album of sacred [[vocal music]] written in the 12th century by the German [[abbess]] [[Hildegard of Bingen]] and recorded by the ''Sequentia'' medieval[[early music]] ensemble [[Sequentia (music group)|Sequentia]] that was released by the [[Deutsche Harmonia Mundi]] recordrecording label in 1993.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/hildegard-von-bingen-canticles-of-ecstasy-mw0001812430. Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy] Retrieved 13 June 2014.</ref>

The album is partone of a series of recordings of the complete musical works of Hildegard by the early medieval music expertsspecialists and founders of Sequentia, the late [[Barbara Thornton]] and her husband [[Benjamin Bagby]].

It was recorded between 16 and 21 June 1993 in the church of [[St. Pantaleon's Church, Cologne|St. Pantaleon, Cologne]], [[Germany]], “at"at the sarcophagus of the Empress [[Theophanu]]" (d. 990991)”.<ref>''Canticles of Ecstasy'' CD booklet, pp. 3–4.</ref>

The music is from a medieval manuscript written at Hildegard’s ownHildegard's abbey (Rupertsberger “Riesencodex”"Riesencodex" (1180–90) Wiesbaden: Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 2) and the [[Latin]] texts are from Hildegard von Bingen, ''Lieder'' (Salzburg, 1969).<ref>''Canticles of Ecstasy'' CD booklet, p. 4.</ref>

All vocal compositions ([[responses]] and [[antiphons]]) written by Hildegard of Bingen.

#“O"O vis aeternitatis”aeternitatis" (7:56)

#“Nunc"Nunc aperuit nobis”nobis" (1:53)

#“Quia"Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit”instruxit" (1:49)

#“Cum"Cum processit factura digiti Dei”Dei" (6:32)

#“Alma"Alma Redemptoris Mater”Mater" (2:10)

#“Ave"Ave Maria, O auctrix vite”vite" (8:57)

#“Spiritus"Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vite”vite" (2:15)

#“O"O ignis spiritus Paracliti”Paracliti" (6:17)

#“Caritas"Caritas habundat in omnia”omnia" (2:10)

#“O"O virga mediatrix”mediatrix" (2:25)

#“O"O viridissima virga, Ave”Ave" (3:51)

#“O"O Pastor Animarum”Animarum" (1:18)

#“O"O tu suavissima virga”virga" (11:12)

#“O"O choruscans stellarum”stellarum" (2:37)

#“O"O nobilissima viriditas”viriditas" (6:42)

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