Pioneering new age composer and pianist Kevin Keller recently sat down to discuss the inspiration behind his latest album, Evensong. This critically acclaimed project brings the 12th-century mystic ...

Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

SAN FRANCISCO — IF YOU’VE ever struggled to learn a poem or piece of music by heart, you may have been abashed at the effort required. But consider how much worse you would have felt in medieval ...

On the 10th anniversary of her canonisation, Voice offer an exclusive track, and explore what the medieval composer's music means to them We formed Voice in 2006 for the love of singing together and ...

A fervid fascination for ancient devotional paeans of Eastern and Western cultures has led Australian musicians Kim Cunio and Heather Lee to explore esoteric realms, from medieval era mysticism and ...

Contemplation is a key element in most religious practices and in Catholicism it can be especially serene. Evensong is known as Vespers in the Roman Catholic tradition, a time of prayers, hymns, ...

Boston being the lively early-music town that it is, performances of 12th-century Benedictine abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ordo Virtutum,” or “The Order of the Virtues,” are hardly few ...

Benedictine spirituality is at the heart of our music this week from two women more than 800 years apart – the 12th century German mystic, nun and composer Hildegard of Bingen and the Irish singer of ...

Regardless of whether you call it plainsong or Gregorian chant, the monophonic mode of sung prayer that goes back almost two millennia is usually heard in a big, reverberant acoustic, the singers ...