Returning to the music of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century German abbess and mystic, Anonymous 4 explores the theme of the Pentecostal power of the "Fiery Spirit". Hildegard's intensely emotional chants and visions (including the monumental hymn O ignee spiritus and some of her finest antiphons) are presented here framed by hymns and sequences that she and her convent sisters would have heard and sung every day.
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HILDEGARD VON BINGEN [1098-1179]
· Hymn Veni creator spiritus (4'26)
· Sequence Veni spiritus eternorum (2'37)
· Antiphon O quam mirabilis est (3'26)
Vision 1 The fire of creation
· Et ego homo (1'46)
· Et audivi (3'07)
· Sequence O ignis spiritus paracliti (7'50)
Vision 2 Wisdom and her sisters
· Vidi etiam (2'22)
· Prima autem (3'07)
· Responsory O felix anima (6'33)
Vision 3 The fiery spirit
· Iterumque vocem (2'00)
· Et imago (4'54)
· Hymn O ignee spiritus (10'02)
Vision 4 Love
· In vera (2'06)
· Et audivi vocem (3'18)
· Antiphon Caritas habundat in omnia (2'16)
· Antiphon O eterne deus (2'31)
· Hymn Beata nobis gaudia (2'47)
