Date/Time
Date(s) - January 22, 2014
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Location
Holy Rosary Cathedral
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SEQUENTIA ENSEMBLE FOR MEDIÆVAL MUSIC:
Benjamin Bagby director, voice & harpNorbert Rodenkirchen flutes & harp, Wolodymyr Smishkewych voice & organistrum
SEQUENTIA WOMEN’S VOCAL ENSEMBLE:
Lydia Brotherton, Agnethe Christensen, Esther Labourdette,Sabine Lutzenberger, Elodie Mourot, Christine Mothes & Lena Susanne Norin
In the North-American premiere of this new progamme, Sequentia presents a selection of the most innovative and expressive vocal music of the High Middle Ages in Germany, featuring masterpieces of the Benedictine visionary and composer Hildegard von Bingen (12th century), the 14th-century mystical poet whose pen name was ‘Frauenlob’, and sinuous settings of the Song of Songs from an Augustinian monastery in Bavaria. http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/CMN05-Sequentia.html