Composition / Medieval

*200 copies limited edition* “Songs of Erosion” is a project by Clara Levy & Victor Guaita Igual revisiting the 13th-century Spanish songbook “Cantigas de Santa María” through the lens of erosion. Rejecting a historicist interpretation, Clara Levy an…

*2024 stock. Deluxe packaging* Although by now almost habitually referred to as Britain’s foremost early music vocal group, the Hilliard Ensemble (founded 1974) has long had an equal, and complementary, commitment to contemporary music. Its members h…

*In process of stocking* Lynn Cassiers and Jozef Dumoulin have been making music together since over 20 years. But it's a vast and fascinating list of unrelated events that brought them to make this recording, featuring the music of 12th century sage…

**2019 stock* * Indian Dhrupad songs meet the chants of Hildegard of Bingen: this extraordinary encounter took place in 2011 at the Montalbâne Festival. It was a successful experiment in a concert that linked together two worlds that at first glance …

2012 release ** "Combining the deep voice of Hildegard von Bingen and the inner song of John Cage (or vice versa)—what a wonderful idea, isn't it? And it's Irene Kurka herself who seems to have come up with it. She performs Hildegard nine times and g…

Double album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble: early, ancient Greek and folk vocal music with improvisation, recorded April 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Vox Clamantis conducted by Jaan-Eik Tulve sing liturgical choral works by Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard, chief among them the eight-part Meditations over St. Mary Magdalene's Feast in Nidaros, with Gregorian chant. Recorded March 2021 at St. Nic…

Solo violin recital by Carolin Widmann: Hildegard von Bingen, Enescu's Fantaisie concertante, George Benjamin's Three Miniatures, Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 5 and Bach's Partita No. 2; recorded July 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manf…

Live recording from the October 2014 farewell tour of Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone) and The Hilliard Ensemble, made in the Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Stefano, Bellinzona: Komitas, Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Brumel, Pärt, Kedrov and Garbarek…

Sixth ECM New Series album by Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Berit Opheim): Icelandic chant of St Thorlak, Italian laude, English carols, Norwegian hymns and works by Jormin, Brooks and Andrew Smith, recorded June 2014 at Pr…

Final album by The Hilliard Ensemble: 15th-century English carols and motets by John Plummer, Walter Lambe, William Cornysh, Sheryngham and anonymous composers, sung by David James, Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold and Gordon Jones, recorded in 201…

Heinz Holliger's Machaut-Transkriptionen (2001-2009) for four voices and three violas, alternating with Machaut originals, sung by The Hilliard Ensemble with violists Geneviève Strosser, Jürg Dähler and Muriel Cantoreggi, recorded November 2010 in Zü…

Hildegard of Bingen's sung morality play Ordo Virtutum (c. 1150) in a free, contemporary-minded arrangement by Dietburg Spohr for the Ensemble Belcanto, recorded October 2010 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.

Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing a reconstructed 13th-century Marian Mass from the Worcester Fragments, with a Credo and Benedicamus Domino by Gavin Bryars, recorded in February 2010 at Propstei St. G…

Garth Knox (viola d'amore, viola, fiddle) with cellist Agnès Vesterman and percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre in music from Hildegard von Bingen to Kaija Saariaho, recorded in December 2009 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano.

Third album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble, centred on Armenian sacred music arranged by Komitas, with chant, Pérotin and Pärt. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold in summer 2009.

The Dowland Project (John Potter, Stephen Stubbs, John Surman, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Miloš Valent) improvise on medieval poems and early music fragments. Recorded September 2001 and January 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.

Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing 12th- and 13th-century English and Notre Dame pieces with Sungji Hong's Missa Lumen de lumine (2002). Recorded February 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.

Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing Leonel Power's Missa Alma redemptoris mater alongside new works by Gavin Bryars, Ivan Moody, Andrew Smith and Oleh Harkavyy, recorded in April 2003 at Propstei St. Ger…

Two vocal works by Stephen Hartke, Tituli (1999) and Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (2000), sung by The Hilliard Ensemble with violinist Michelle Makarski and two percussionists, conducted by Donald Crockett, recorded in February 2003 at Mechanics H…