Tag: Hildegard von Bingen

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Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 upended life in the country - forcing around eight million Ukrainians to become internally displaced while roughly the same number were compelled to leave the country in what is Europe's largest and deadliest conflict since the end of World War II - an array of experimental musicians across a...

The ever prolific Laura Cannell describes first hearing the music of the composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen around 1997 when she left rural Norfolk and embarked on the London College of Music for her undergraduate degree. Her uncle, a professor of microbiology with a keen interest in early music, played her the Canticles of Ecstasy by the long-running...