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Origin of Fire

1. Veni creator spiritus
2. Veni spiritus eternorum
3. O quam mirabilis est
4. The fire of creation
5. O ignis spiritus paracliti
6. Wisdom and her sisters
7. O felix anima
8. The fiery spirit
9. O ignee spiritus
10. Love
11. Caritas habundat in omnia
12. O eterne deus
13. Beata nobis gaudia

"Origin" is the ¹⁶th recording by the four angel-voiced women of Anonymous 4, of music by ¹²th century German abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard's intensely emotional chants and visions (including the monumental hymn "O ignee spiritus" and some of her finest antiphons) are performed here framed by hymns and sequences that she and her convent sisters would have heard and sung every day. 17 songs, the hymns "Veni creator spiritus" and "Beata nobis gaudia," " the antiphon "O quam mirabilis est," the vision "The fire of creation," the sequences "Veni spiritus eternorum" and "Oignis spiritus paracliti," and the responsory "O felix anima" are particularly wonderful, but we are deeply touched throughout this recording by the spirit and power of this music, hauntingly and perfectly performed by the stunningly talented Anonymous 4.

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