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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: SYMPHONIA 1
Symphony of the Harmony
of Celestial Revelations (Oxford
Girls' Choir / SINFONYE, dir. Stevie Wishart) Celestial
Harmonies 13127-2 (1996)
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"in
my first formation, even in my mother's womb God raised me up with the breath
of life. He fixed this vision in my soul" |
Sinfonye and OGC sing O vos
angeli (first section) (1.4 MB) |
- "Very highly
recommended" (Mary Berry, The Gramophone)
- "...the
Oxford Girls' Choir is outstanding. The performances are both knowledgeable and
moving" (Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review)
- "...the
seraphic voices of the Oxford Girls' Choir" (Antony Pitts, BBC Radio
3)
- "...Three cheers for the Oxford
Girls' Choir. They sing with that little bit of flair that is crucial, and have
a focus that boys rarely have" (Madeleine Rowles, Early Music News -
Australia)
- "The
Times" review of record launch by Tess Knighton
- Black
Sun CD review by Meurig Bowen
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 HILDEGARD
OF BINGEN: SYMPHONIA 2
Aurora (Oxford
Girls' Choir / SINFONYE, dir. Stevie Wishart) Celestial
Harmonies 13128-2 (1998)
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"But,
O dawn, from your womb a new sun came out" |
OGC sings Spiritui Sancto
(2.0 MB)
Victoria
Couper sings Quia ergo femina (0.8 MB) |
top row:
Sara Stowe, Stevie
Wishart, Emily Levy
middle row: Clemmie Franks, Vivien Ellis,
Victoria
Couper
bottom row: Georgia Black, Katherine Taylor, Camilla Scarlett, Louise
Eekelaar
photo: Pierre Chan |
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 HILDEGARD
OF BINGEN: SYMPHONIA 3
O nobilissima viriditas
(Oxford Girls'
Choir / SINFONYE, dir. Stevie Wishart) Celestial
Harmonies 13129-2 (2004)
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"O most noble greenness, you
whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no
earthly eminence can comprehend" |
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standing l-r:
Victoria Couper, Richard Vendome,
Jocelyn West, Louise Eekelaar,
Moira
Smiley, Stevie Wishart
kneeling l-r: Emily Burn, Clemmie Franks
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MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Songs, laments and dances
(Oxford
Girls' Choir, Serendipity, The Monks and Novices of St Frideswide) CD Gift
of Music CDG 1055 (1998)
Music
found in medieval manuscripts that evokes the age of chivalry and courtly love.
This richly varied programme includes plainchant and instrumental pieces played
on a psaltery (small harp) and portative (portable) organ of the kind often seen
in medieval paintings.
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OGC
sings Angelus ad virginem (1.6 MB)
OGC
sings Dou way Robin (1.2 MB)
OGC
sings Lullay lullow (1.0 MB)
OGC
sings Nobilis humilis (1.5 MB)
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ANGELIC VOICES
the music of Hildegard of Bingen
(Oxford
Girls' Choir, dir. Richard Vendome)
CD Gift
of Music CCG 1028 (1998)
"I saw so great a brightness..." medieval
visions in music composed nine hundred years ago by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen
by one of the greatest musicians of her time.
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OGC
sings Kyrie (0.8 MB)
Penelope
Martin-Smith sings O nobilissima viriditas (2.0 MB) |
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 UNIO
MYSTICA
Der Zauber des Mittelalters
"the
Magic of the Middle Ages"
(Klaus Voelker and others, with the Oxford
Girls' Choir) CD Warner Vertrieb
B00004YMLX (2001)
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include: Cuncti simus concanentes, O Ecclesia, Salva nos, O Eucharie, Gaudete,
Maria matrem virginem, Ah si mon moine |
