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Hildegard becomes a leader and strikes out on her own. With Donald Macleod. As Christians around the world prepare for Easter, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of two nuns who were also composers. Though Hildegard of Bingen and Isabella Leonarda lived five centuries apart, their stories and music are connected by their shared faith and their shared vocations. Both lived cloistered lives, shut away in convents and cut off from the everyday concerns of the societies in which they lived. Yet they also enjoyed a profoundly rich and human connection with the world and with their God, revealed in the music and poetry they created and sent into the world. Today, Donald Macleod returns to the story of Hildegard of Bingen with Hildegard’s biographer, Fiona Maddocks. We see Hildegard begin to use her new-found renown to push against some of the strictest rules of her order, eventually resolving to set up her own community of nuns and follow her religious vocation as she sees fit. Hildegard: Caritas abundant (instrumental) Barbora Kabátková, medieval harp Hana Blažiková, medieval harp Margit Übellacker, dulce melos Hildegard: Ordo Virtutum (Prologue and Scene 1) Sequentia, directed by Benjamin Bagby Leonarda: Sonata, Op 16 No 7 Emanuele Breda, violin Barbara Mauch-Heinke, violin Daniela Wartenberg, cello Toshinori Ozaki, theorbo Sofya Gandilyan, harpsichord Hildegard: Ave generosa Hildegard: Ave Maria O auctrix [instrumental] Augsburg Early Music Ensemble Hildegard: Antiphon, O quam mirabilis est Anonymous 4 Leonarda: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum, Op 10 Nova Ars Cantandi, directed by Giovanni Acciai