Sequentia

Seasoned early-music excavator Benjamin Bagby makes a speciality of illuminating obscure corners of the pre-Baroque repertoire. In this concert produced by the Boston Early Music Festival, Bagby and his Sequentia colleague Norbert Rodenkirchen pontificate on the Apocalypse. Musical selections, all around 1,000 years old, include an Old English setting of "Lay of the Last Survivor" from Beowulf and the Old Icelandic "Prophecy of the Völva," plus Latin sequences from the Frankish tradition.