, music from the island monastery - Ensemble Ordo Virtutum

Ensemble: Ordo Virtutum Album: Insula Felix Video: W.7, Reichenau Gospels / Last one from Gero Kodex01 (Anno from the Scriptorium of Reichenau delivers a finished Codex.) • Insula felix, “augia felix“, fortunate island ~ fruitful island. So Walahried Strabo sings in the ninth century in one of his most famous poems, the Metnum Saphicum, longing for his beloved island monastery from afar, while he stays in Fulda for his education, and Reichenau, together with St. Gallen, was truly a stronghold of science and art, a cradle of European culture in the Lake of Constance. In both places chant, poetry and illuminations flourished. In contrast to the Abbey of St. Gall, however, the manuscript treasures, which had in the past been guarded by Reginbert, the famous monastery librarian, were scattered to the four winds. So it is research in recent years which has achieved for the first time an approximate reconstruction of the musical culture of the island