Cantate's God sy gelovet features the Schola und Ensemble devotio moderna, a period vocal group devoted to interpreting music sources found in the medieval convent of Luneberg in Northern Germany. Despite the enormous amount of interest in Hildegard von Bingen since her rediscovery in the 1970s, surviving repertoire located in medieval convents not dispersed during the late eighteenth century, or destroyed in World War II, remains little known; only in 2008 did the University of Göttingen institute a comprehensive, ...
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Cantate's God sy gelovet features the Schola und Ensemble devotio moderna, a period vocal group devoted to interpreting music sources found in the medieval convent of Luneberg in Northern Germany. Despite the enormous amount of interest in Hildegard von Bingen since her rediscovery in the 1970s, surviving repertoire located in medieval convents not dispersed during the late eighteenth century, or destroyed in World War II, remains little known; only in 2008 did the University of Göttingen institute a comprehensive, comparative study of the 82 medieval manuscripts found in Saxon, South German, convents. At the Luneberg convent in the North, the library is blessed with a small but significant number of manuscripts including two sources for the complete liturgy for the Coronation of Nuns. A selection of these pieces, arranged into a roughly liturgical contextual relationship, is presented on God sy gelovet.The choir of nuns sings well and with a fair amount of transparency; a male reciter is heard in the...
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