Hildegard of Bingen and Isabella Leonarda

As Christians around the world prepare for Easter, Donald Macleod
explores the life and music of two nuns who were also composers.
Though Hildegard of Bingen and Isabella Leonarda lived five
centuries apart, their stories and music are connected by their
shared faith and their shared vocations. Both lived cloistered
lives, shut away in convents and cut off from the everyday
concerns of the societies in which they lived. Yet, they also
enjoyed a profoundly rich and human connection with the world and
with their God, revealed in the music and poetry they created and
sent into the world.


Music Featured:


Hildegard: Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans Leonarda: Sonata, Op 16 No
8 Hildegard: Columba Aspexit Hildegard (ed Wishart): O frondens
virga Hildegard: O virga ac diadema Leonarda: Memento rerum
Leonarda: Volo Jesum, Op 3 No 4 Leonarda: Sonata, Op 16 No 3
Leonarda: O anima mea Leonarda: Dixit dominus, Op 19 Hildegard:
Ordo Virtutum (Prologue and Scene 1) Hildegard: Antiphon, O quam
mirabilis est Leonarda: Purpurei Flores, Op 20 Leonarda:
Magnificat Op 19 Leonarda: Sonata Op 16, No 12 Leonarda: Ave
suavis dilectio, Op 6 No 5 Hildegard: O rubor sanguinis
Hildegard: O Ecclesia


Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full
track listings, including artist and recording details, and to
listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after
broadcast) head to the series page for Hildegard of Bingen and
Isabella Leonarda https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kh9p


And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve
featured on Composer of the Week here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z