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A 900th birthday celebration!! This rich and contemplative album is a collection of the chants of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).

Capturing the final collaboration between Gertrude Stein (text) and Virgil Thomson (music), which Gertrude didn't live to hear, this very unique 2-CD opera focuses on Susan B. Anthony, the pioneer 19th century women's rights activist.

A mesmerizing program of early Christian women's chants -- expressions of women's spirituality, rooted in mysticism and seeking ecstatic connection with the infinite -- in spite of a 4th-century ban which forbade women's chants in the liturgy.

This recording draws upon her large collection of music & poetry, and is lovely even to ears with little classical or devotional inclination. Her pieces frequently present visions of women - St. Ursula, Virgin Mary - sometimes with erotic imagery.

Conducted by JoAnn Falletta, this country's premier women's orchestra performs works by Lili Boulanger, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, and Germaine Tailleferre.

The theme is springtime and reawakening... an alluring magical world of spells, risky maidens, lovers' potions, drinking songs and sexual liaisons. This 2000 release marks a significant and evolutionary musical progression for the Baebes.

Hildegard's rhapsodic chants, inspired by the legend of St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins, are full of imagery, as our favorite classical female vocal quartet weaves a hypnotic web of sound.

Works by women composers are presented on this varied compilation, from Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Germaine Tailleferre, and Fanny Mendelssohn, to Amy Beach, to Thea Musgrave, to contemporaries like Ellen Taffe Zwilich and Meredith Monk.

'...fine shorter works by the contemporary muse of Philadelphia. As always with Davidson, the material is accessible without ever being condescending.'