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The Enchantment of Chant

Starting with the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Tom explores how chant has resonated across a thousand years of music, taking in American Hopi and Buddhist chants and the Hildegurls.

The immense power of chant to transform both the listener and the chanter has ensured the survival of this ancient musical form. Starting with the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Tom explores how chant has resonated across a thousand years of music, taking in American Hopi and Buddhist chants and the Hildegurls, a 21st century reading of Hildegard's music.

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29 minutes

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Fri 23 Sep 2022 16:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arvo Pärt

    Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem for soloists, chmbr chor & ensemble

    Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.
    • ECM 1360.

  • Clemmie Franks

    O virtus Sapientie - antiphon

    • DECCA.
    • 476-5117.

  • Trad.

    Initiation au culte de Yamantaka

    Performer: The Tibetan Monks of Gyuto.
    • OCORA.
    • C 560133/34.

  • Philip Glass

    Koyaanisqatsi - music from the film

    Performer: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • ANTILLES NEW DIRECTIONS.
    • 90626-2.

  • Crowd at football match

    Rodgers & Hammerstein: You'll Never Walk Alone

  • Unknown performers

    Anon: Chanting the 7 Chakras

    • Inner Splendor Music.
    • unknown.

  • Schola of the Vienna Hofburgkapelle

    Anon: Ad Te Levavi

    • DECCA.
    • 00028946839928.

  • Trad.

    Wonnga Dance Songs

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Folkways.
    • UNES08040_106.

  • Trad.

    Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

    Performer: Unknown.

  • Elin Manahan Thomas

    O Euchari, in leta via - sequence

    • DECCA.
    • 00602517332195.

  • Sequentia

    O vis eternitatis - antiphon

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 05472-77320 2.

  • Sequentia

    Hildegard of Bingen: Nunc Aperuit Nobis

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 05472-77320 2.

  • Sequentia

    Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vita - antiphon

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 05472-77320 2.

  • Gothic Voices & Christopher Page

    O ecclesia oculi tui - sequence

    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 66039-.

  • Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble

    GARBAREK, Jan (Saxophone) on (Parce mihi domine) [Morales: Officium defunctorum, sung by Hilliard Ensemble]

    • ECM New Series.
    • ECM 1525.

  • Traditional

    Trad: Introitus, Missa Pro Defunctis

    Performer: The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz.
    • Universal.
    • 4766774.

  • Curly M.C.

    Curly M.C.: Sadeness

    Performer: Enigma.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 663 703.

  • Unknown performers

    Anon: Chanting the 7 Chakras

    • Inner Splendor Music.
    • unknown.

  • Trad.

    Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

    Performer: Unknown.

  • Trad.

    Initiation au culte de Yamantaka

    Performer: The Tibetan Monks of Gyuto.
    • OCORA.
    • C 560133/34.

  • Philip Glass

    Koyaanisqatsi - music from the film

    Performer: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • ANTILLES NEW DIRECTIONS.
    • 90626-2.

  • The Hildegurls

    Ordo virtutum - morality play

    • Innova Recordings.
    • innova 712.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Sep 2022 17:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Fri 23 Sep 2022 16:30
    BBC Radio 3

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