| Canticles of Ecstasy | |
| Type: | cover |
| Artist: | Sequentia |
| Cover: | Canticles of Ecstasy.jpg |
| Recorded: | St. Pantaleon, Cologne, Germany, 16–21 June 1993 |
| Length: | 72:53 |
| Label: | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi |
| Producer: | Klaus L. Neumann |
| Prev Title: | Oswald von Wolkenstein: Songs |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Voice of the Blood |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Canticles of Ecstasy is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen and recorded by the early music ensemble Sequentia that was released by the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi recording label in 1993.[1]
The album is one of a series of recordings of the complete musical works of Hildegard by the early medieval music specialists and founders of Sequentia, Barbara Thornton and her husband Benjamin Bagby.
It was recorded between 16 and 21 June 1993 in the church of St. Pantaleon, Cologne, Germany, "at the sarcophagus of the Empress Theophanu" (d. 991).[2]
The music is from a medieval manuscript written at Hildegard's abbey (Rupertsberger "Riesencodex" (1180–90) Wiesbaden: Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 2) and the Latin texts are from Hildegard von Bingen, Lieder (Salzburg, 1969).[3]
All vocal compositions (responses and antiphons) written by Hildegard of Bingen.