After 1000 years, the sounds of the composition called Carmina qui quondam resounded. This is part of an extensive restoration project by the University of Cambridge, which has been ongoing for more than 20 years. After a millennium, it was played again by the group Sequentia on the original instruments and with the original technique. Listen to a song that is almost as old as the earth!
As long as there is man, there is also music. This one is like a photo. Moments of time are captured in it. Carmina qui quondam (“Comforting Song”) is more than A 1000 year old song, which originates from the Middle Ages and was explored by researchers of Cambridge University, after its notes were silenced for centuries, brought back to life. The researchers entrusted the implementation to a three-member team Sequentia, which specializes in playing medieval music.
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It took two decades of careful work to make them recreated the original instruments and adopted the technique, with which they played on them. Carmina qui quondam the philosopher Boethius is otherwise just one of the many restored tracks from the stolen album manuscript from the 11th century, which returned to Cambridge after 142 years after being accidentally discovered in a Frankfurt library.
