MEDIVA

SEQUENCES

Hildegard von Bingen /// Hugh Collins RIce /// contemporary music and ancient chant /// medieval instruments and voices /// Odradek Records

http://www.odradek-records.com

GRAMAPHONE MAGAZINE Oct 2016

"Mediva’s performances of Hildegard's works come with no kitsch medieval baggage and no vaseline on the lens; there is an earthy directness here.

Hugh Collins Rice’s vocal music is deeply expressive, while his idea of precounterpoint counterpoint taps something deeply, naturally human. 

The interactive possibilities of medieval instruments seem to propel him to something evocative but trendless.

It’s a mark of the disc’s success that you don’t always know whether its Collins Rice you’re lisening to or Hildegard; each sounds as contemporary as the other."