Hildegard Portraits
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0652
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 17th June 2022
Contents
Works
Nunc gaudeant (arr. Stevie Wishart and Voice)O clarissima mater
O mirum admirandum
O orzchis ecclesia
O virtus sapientiae
Unde quocumque venientes (arr. Stevie Wishart and Voice)
Musical Harmony
O Boundless Ecclesia
How Sweetly You Burn
O quam mirabilis
Hildegard Portraits
Aseruz trium vocum (arr. Voice)
O choruscans lux (choir version)
Three Wings: pt 1
Artists
VoiceWorks
Nunc gaudeant (arr. Stevie Wishart and Voice)O clarissima mater
O mirum admirandum
O orzchis ecclesia
O virtus sapientiae
Unde quocumque venientes (arr. Stevie Wishart and Voice)
Musical Harmony
O Boundless Ecclesia
How Sweetly You Burn
O quam mirabilis
Hildegard Portraits
Aseruz trium vocum (arr. Voice)
O choruscans lux (choir version)
Three Wings: pt 1
Artists
VoiceAbout
Hailed by Gramophone as inheritors of “the slot left by the dissolution of Anonymous 4”, Voice – Emily Burn, Victoria Couper and Clemmie Franks – formed in 2006. Singing together since their early teens in the Oxford Girls’ Choir, and as members of Stevie Wishart’s Sinfonye, they have toured throughout the UK, USA and Europe.
Hildegard Portraits draws on close relationships between Voice and the featured composers. It takes its title from the first recording of Laura Moody’s seven-part setting of Hildegard’s letters forming a portrait, Moody says, of “not so much a saint, seer or symbol, but a woman who lived and loved”.
Their collaboration with “friend and mentor” Stevie Wishart continues with first recordings of Aseruz trium vocum and O choruscans lux (choir version), responses to what Voice describe as “the soaring, melismatic lines, the flourishes and ornamentation, and mesmerising unison sound” of St Hildegard’s own music, heard to sublime effect in six pieces, including O clarissima mater, O virtus sapientie and Nunc gaudeant.
Other exclusive/first recordings include Marcus Davidson’s Musical Harmony and O Boundless Ecclesia, Emily Levy’s compelling blend of folk-inspired melody and Hildegardian ornamentation, How Sweetly You Burn, and Tim Lea Young’s Three Wings: pt.1 (all composed, like Moody’s title work, for Voice).
Ivan Moody’s O quam mirabilis exquisitely sets Hildegard’s own text “expressing to perfection awe at the mystery of the Creator God”.
Voice has self-released two albums – Musical Harmony (2013) and Patterns of Love (2015). Collaborative releases include I Have Set My Hert So Hy with Dufay Collective (2015), and Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared; Moravian Folksongs; Říkadla with Julius Drake and Nicky Spence (2019).
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