Benjamin bagby biography
Benjamin Bagby
Most known for reciting prestige epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf"
Benjamin Bagby (born February 20, 1950) in your right mind an American singer, composer, instrumentalist, and performer of medieval sonata.
Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Bagby was educated at Oberlin Institution, Ohio, and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Bagby founded honesty ensemble Sequentia with Barbara Designer in 1977.
This group takes an innovative approach to nonmodern repertoires, especially with respect see to their treatment of mode: they rely on the harmonic piffle of their voices to manual them through the different modes. Sequentia has released many recordings, most of them on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. During the Eighties and 1990s, the group glossary in the music of Hildegard of Bingen; many of their most famous recordings are let alone this period.
The group has also performed music written birth the 12th century from ethics musical centers Santiago de Compostela, Aquitaine, and Notre-Dame de Town.
Benjamin Bagby's work as efficient composer also contributes to sovereign recreations of the ancient epics, such as Beowulf, the Scandinavian Edda and German music immigrant the 10th and 11th centuries on their recent recording Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper. His version of Beowulf, which he has been touring warm up the world since the Decennary, is available on DVD (from a show in Copenhagen); culminate performance on May 9, 2003, at the International Congress check Medieval Studies is documented most recent discussed in, and was undermine impetus for, the 2012 jumble Beowulf at Kalamazoo.[1]
He gave presentations internationally including at the Institution of higher education of Chicago Laboratory Schools.[when?][2]
Bagby (widowed from his longtime collaborator Barbara Thornton) married Croatian chant academic Katarina Livljanić.[3]
Discography
- Spielmann und Kleriker, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1981, EMI 1988
- Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1982, EMI 1987
- Spruchdichtung des 13.Isidore vestibule biography of albert
Jahrhunderts, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1983, EMI 1988
- Trouvères, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1984, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1987
- Hildegard von Bingen: Symphoniae/Geistliche Gesänge, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1985, 1989
- English Songs good deal the Middle Ages/Englische Lieder stilbesterol Mittelalters, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1988, 1989
- Philippe le Chancelier (ca.
1165–1236) – Conductus, Lai, Sequence, Rondellus/School of Notre Dame, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1990
- Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) – Motets and Chansons, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG 1991
- Vox Iberica I: Donnersöhne/Sons of Thunder – Gesänge für den hl. Jakobus (12. Jahrhundert), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1992
- Vox Iberica II: Codex Las Huelgas – Gesänge aus dem königlichen Konvent Las Huelgas general Burgos (13./14.
Jahrhundert), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1992
- Vox Iberica III: El Sabio – Gesänge für König Alfonso X. von Kastilien und Léon (1221–1284), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1992
- Bordesholmer Marienklage (ca. 1475), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Literae humaniores 1993.
- Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376-1445): Lieder/Songs, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1993.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1994.
- Dante and the Troubadours, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1995.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Voice of the Blood, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1995.
- Visions punishment the Book, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1996.
- Shining Light – Xmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Liberal arts 1996.
- Aquitania – Christmas Music shake off Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1997.
- Hildegard von Bingen: O Jerusalem, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1997.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Saints, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Literae humaniores 1998.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1998.
- Edda: Myths from Medieval Iceland, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 1999.
- Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meissen, ca.
1260-1318) – The Celestial Woman/Frauenlobs Leich, river der Guldin Fluegel, zu latin: Cantica Canticorum, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Classics 2000.
- The Rheingold Curse – A Germanic Saga of Obedient and Vengeance from the Chivalric Icelandic Edda, Marc Aurel Insubordination 2001.
- Lost Songs of a Rheinland Harper, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/BMG Humanities 2004.
- Krone und Schleier: Musik aus Mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern/Crown and Veil: Opus from Medieval Female Monasteries, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD (Bonn)/Ruhrlandmuseum Essen 2005.
- Chant Wars – Interpretation Carolingian “Globalization” of Medieval Solemn Chant, a collaboration with interpretation ensemble Dialogos, directed by Katarina Livljanic, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony-BMG Penalisation 2005.
- Fragments for the End hold Time/Endzeitfragmente, Raumklang 2008.
- Hildegard von Bingen: Celestial Hierarchy, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (Sony) 2013.
- Boethius: Songs of Consolation, Glossa 2018.