Hildegard von Bingen - Laudes de Sainte Ursule

Hildegard von Bingen - Laudes de Sainte Ursule
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia mundi HMC 901626

Contents:

    Hildegard von Bingen, Dendermonde St. Peters & Paulusabdij, ms. Codex 9:
  1. Deus in adjutorium meum intende
  2. Anthem: Studium divinitatis
  3. Psalm 150: Miserere mei Deus
  4. Anthem: Studium divinitatis
  5. Anthem: Unde quoque
  6. Psalm 117: Confitemini Domino
  7. Anthem: Unde quoque
  8. Anthem: De patria
  9. Psalm 62: Deus, Deus meus
  10. Anthem: De patria
  11. Anthem: Deus enim
  12. Canticle: Benedicite omnia opera
  13. Anthem: Deus enim
  14. Anthem: Aer enim
  15. Psalm 148: Laudate Dominum - Capitulum
  16. Anthem: Aer enim
  17. Capitulum
  18. Hymn: Cum vox sanguinis Ursule
  19. Versiculum
  20. Anthem: Et ideo puelle iste
  21. Zacharia's canticle: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël
  22. Anthem: Et ideo puelle iste
  23. Kyrie, Pater Noster, Oratio
  24. Benedicamus Domino
  25. Respons: Spiritui Sancto honor sit - Versus

Performers:
Laurence Brisset, Kinga Cserjési, Marie Garnodon, Isabelle Héroux, Kristin Hoefener, Pasquale Mourey, Pascale Poulard, Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès, dir.

Playing time: 79' 01"

Recording site and date:
Abbaye de Silvanès, Aveyron, France [11/1996]; Rel.: 1997 (HMC)

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Diapason (#-p.): 438-69 (june 1997)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 21/1-200 (sep./oct. 1997)

Previous release: none

Comments: If you are like myself, a bit fed up with mystico-New Age interpretation of Hildegard, you will get absolute satisfaction with this CD. Pérès is a true iconoclast and this time a winner, contrary to his recent Machault. You will hate it or love it.

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Pierre-F. Roberge