#1933: Program #1933

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

New Sounds gets Medieval in tonight's installment. We hear Icelandic eddas by Sequentia, an excerpt from "Beowulf" by Benjamin Bagby (pictured), plus several sequences and songs by Hildegard von Bingen and Brigitte von Schweden.

PROGRAM # 1933, Ancient Music for a Modern Age (First aired on Thurs., 7/5/01)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Sverrir Guðjonsson	Epitaph - Medieval Iceland	Prologue [3:30] The Long Spring [1:00] Iceland [1:30] Kyrie [1:30] My Tongue Be Not Reluctant [1:30]	Opus 111 #30-253. Opus111@compuserve.com or info@opus111.net Also distr. by Harmonia Mundi, or available on Amazon.com*
Sequentia	Edda - Myths from Medieval Iceland	Baldyr's Dreams [9:30]	Deutsche Harmonia Mundi #77381** Available on Amazon.com*
Benjamin Bagby	WNYC Live, January 4, 2001	Beowulf, excerpt [3:30]	Not commercially available.
Sequentia	Ancient Music for a Modern Age	Bishop Ato: O Adiutor [5:30]	Deutsche Harmonia Mundi #61868** Available on Amazon.com*
Les Flamboyants	Hildegard von Bingen & Birgitta von Schweden	Hildegard: O Viridissima Virga [5:30] Birgitta: Christe Patris Excelsi [6:00]	Klang Raum #9802. Raumklang@t-online.de
Einojuhani Rautavaara	The Myth of Sampo	II [6:00]	Ondine #892.** www.ondine.fi or available on Amazon.com*

*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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