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She was born 32 years after the Battle of Hastings and 47 years before the start of construction of Chartres Cathedral.\r\n\r\nBut Hildegard sounds cutting edge in pianist \u003cstrong\u003eKatelyn Bouska\u003c\/strong\u003e's hands, as Kate combines seminal works by Hildegard rewritten (with no holds barred) for solo piano, and other women composers Ruth Schönthal, Maya Miro Johnson, Sláva Vorlová, Amy Beach and Bouska herself, taking us on a journey through the \"Dark Night Of The Soul.\"\r\n\r\nHow many pianists would venture to reimagine Hildegard von Bingen’s music for solo piano, immersing us into a sonic world of profound interior calm? As you know, each track represents a complete take. This is real music, just as Kate performed it in Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eYarlung's Bob Attiyeh recorded this album as if Kate’s piano were a full choir, stretching from far left to far right in the soundstage. Thanks to the superb acoustics in Samueli Theater, you may hear ambiance and extreme high and low notes on Kate’s keyboard expanding outside your speakers in your listening room. Unconventional as this may be for a solo piano recording. This was intentional such that the listener can experience more of the sound Kate enjoyed sitting at the piano, as if our ears are Kate’s ears while she plays. This means audiophiles can use this album to test phase coherency and speaker placement in their listening rooms.\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eThis recording includes four new commissions, one by composer Maya Miro Johnson underwritten for Kate by Raulee Marcus and Don Pattison, and three Hildegard reimaginings by Kate herself underwritten by Stratton-Petit Foundation.\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003cem\u003eI was asked to teach a music history seminar at Curtis, one that was required for all incoming first-year students. In developing these lectures I remembered my own first music history course as a student, a life-changing event that transferred my latent passion for archaeology into music research, “uncovering and preserving bones,” so to speak. One of these musical “bones” is music by Hildegard. Whether I return to this music academically or for personal enjoyment, I feel Hildegard’s inspiration without fail. I spent the next semester teaching and re-discovering this ancient yet familiar world from a professor’s stand point, enjoying the process as my students experienced it for themselves, sometimes for the first time.\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eKatelyn Bouska, Piano\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Yarlung Records","offers":[{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741120475460,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741120508228,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741120540996,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741120573764,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741120606532,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741120639300,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741120672068,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741120704836,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57343030853956,"sku":"YAR59689DSD-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343030886724,"sku":"YAR59689DSDS1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343030919492,"sku":"YAR59689DSDS1517","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343030952260,"sku":"YAR59689DSDS1617","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/YAR59689.jpg?v=1790647008","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/yar59689dsd-hildegard-and-her-sisters-pure-dsd","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}