6th November – Hildegard at Highgate!

Only 10 days to go until the music of Hildegard of Bingen and those wonderful 14th century ‘courtly composers’ rings out in Highgate School Chapel.

The lovely acapella Voice trio –  Emily, Victoria and Clemmie – will be filling the chapel with songs from mediaeval Europe – suitably celebratory in the run up to Christmas!

6.30-7.30pm – Saturday, November 6th – £20

To book, go here.

The programme:

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Caritas habundat (‘Love abounds’) – Psalm antiphon for the Holy Spirit as Divine Love
O Clarissima Mater – Responsory for the Virgin

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Je sui aussi – a ballade
Puis qu’en oubli and Doulz viaire gracieus – two songs in rondeau form.
Machaut was a master of the musical style known as Ars Nova. The subject matter of his lyric poetry was primarily the theme of “courtly love” and the exploration of the poet’s feelings of pain and pleasure in this heightened state of unattainable desire.

Francesco Landini – L’alma mia piange – an Italian ballata and another expression of courtly love, where emotions remain unrequited.
Jacopo de Bologna (c.1340-1386)
Aquila Altera – this madrigal is thought to have been written for a wedding or coronation ceremony.
Anon – Onques ne fut – France (14^th C)
Johannes Valliant – Par maintes foy – one of the most popular works of the time.
Anon – S’on me regarde/Prennés i garde/HÉ MI ENFANT – France (13^th C)
Anon., France (13^th C) arr. Emily Burn for Voice – Bien m’ont Amours entrepris

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O Virtus Sapientiae  (‘O energy of wisdom’)
Favus distillans, literally ‘dripping honeycomb’
Nunc Gaudeant arr. Voice – Votive Antiphon for the Dedication of a Church