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Hildegard von Bingen 11,000 Virgins Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula
Hildegard von Bingen 11,000 Virgins Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula1. Antiphon: Auctori vite psalmis
Invitatory: Venite exsultemus domino
2. Symphonia virginum: O dulcissime amator
3. Hymn: Jesu corona virginum
4. Responsory: Spiritui sancto
5. Versicle: Specie tua
6. Responsory: Favus distillans
7. Benedicamus domino
8. Antiphon: Studium divinitatis
9. Psalm 92: Dominus regnavit/Studium divinitatis
10. Sequence: O Ecclesia
11. Benedicamus domino,
12. Chapter: Domine deus meus
13. Brief responsory: Mirabilis deus
14. Hymn: Cum vox sanguinis
15. Antiphon: O rubor sanguinis
16. Canticle: Magnificat anima mea/O rubor sanguinis
17. Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum
18. Benedicamus domino
The radiant music of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, twelfth-century poet-composer, prophet and mystic, herbalist and healer, came to her in visions and was no doubt intended to be sung by the nuns of her convent. Her rhapsodic chants inspired by the legend of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins are full of imagery, weaving a hypnotic web of sound. Anonymous 4, who sing with "an ethereal clarity that is absolutely captivating"", are the ideal interpreters of this music.