Boethius: Songs Of Consolation: Metra from 11th-century Canterbury

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The fifth-century Roman philosopher’s reflections on life were set to simple music by medieval musicians. Sequentia brings the melodies to life with beautiful counterpoint. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: GCD922518
Label: Glossa
Length: 50 minutes

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Carmina qui quondam

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Recording Venue: Topaz Audio Studio, Cologne, Germany

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Heu, quam praecipiti

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Tunc me discussa

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Quisquis composito

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: O stelliferi

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Cum Phoebi radiis

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Nubibus atris

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Stans a longe

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Si quantas rapidis

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Tuba

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Bella bis quinis

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Vaga

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: Quid tantos

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Sequentia is among the world’s most respected and innovative ensembles for medieval music. Under the direction of Benjamin Bagby, Sequentia can look back on more than 40 years of international concert tours, a comprehensive discography of more than 30 recordings spanning the entire Middle Ages, film and television productions of medieval music drama, and a new generation of young performers trained in professional courses given by members of the ensemble. Sequentia was co-founded by Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton during their final years as students at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and have maintained a solid link with the Swiss institution since then. Their appearance in the collection that the SCB publishes in co-production with Glossa was an eagerly expected one. And intriguing it is, too… Imprisoned in Pavia in the early 520s, Boethius could not have anticipated that his final work would become one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. The Consolation of Philosophy portrays his struggle to reconcile himself to his fate by exploring the ways of man, the role of Fortune, and the major questions of good and evil. Evidence that the poems of the Consolation were sung in the early Middle Ages survives in the form of musical notation added to over thirty extant manuscripts dating from the ninth through to the beginning of the twelfth century. Through scholarly detective work, the members of Sequentia, together with a Cambridge eminence in the medieval melodic tradition linked to Boethius’ work, Sam Barrett, have been able to produce a convincing reconstruction of this lost repertory.

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October 2018

The fifth-century Roman philosopher’s reflections on life were set to simple music by medieval musicians. Sequentia brings the melodies to life with beautiful counterpoint.

8th July 2018

The singing of Benjamin Bagby and Hanna Marti, accompanied by medieval flutes and harps, will beguile any willing ear as they chart a human’s path from mortal fear to reconciliation.

Boethius: Songs Of Consolation

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