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Sara Mohr-Pietsch for Building a Library surveys the music on record of the 11th century composer, writer, mystic and Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen, specifically the many liturgical songs that were collected into the extraordinary cycle known as the 'Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum'.

Top recommendation:

Sequentia: Celestial Hierarchy
HILDEGARD: O splendidissima gemma; O dulcis electe; O speculum columbae; O spectabilis viri; O cohors militiae; O victoriosissimi Triumphatores; Kyrie eleison; O vos imitatores excelse; O gloriosissimi lux; O vos angeli
Sequentia
DEUTSCHE HARMONA MUNDI 88765468642 (CD)

Other recordings:

Below is a shortlist of other recordings which Sara Mohr-Pietsch also liked, although we can鈥檛 guarantee the availability of these discs.

Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God
HILDEGARD: Columba aspexit; Ave generosa; O ignis Spiritus Paracliti; O Jerusalem aurea civitatis, sequence to St Rupert; O Euchari; O viridissima virga; O presul vere civitas; O Ecclesia
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)
HYPERION CDA66039 (CD mid-price)

Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations
HILDEGARD: O Euchari; Alleluia; Ave generosa; For the Trinity (Laus Trinitati); Kyrie; O presul vere civitas; O ignis Spiritus Paracliti; Ordo Virtutum; O pastor animarum; O viridissima virga; O virga ac diadema
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
NAXOS 8550998 (CD budget)

Hildegard von Bingen / John Cage
HILDEGARD: O Rubor Sanguinis, Studium Divinatis, O Virtus Sapientiae, O Viridissma Virga, O Felix Apparitio, Aer Enim, Et Ideo Puellae, Deus Enim Rorem, Sed Diabolus; CAGE: Sonnekus Parts 1-9; HILDEGARD/CAGE: O Rubor Sanguinis, Sonnekus Part I, Studium Divinatis, Sonnekus Part II, O Virtus Sapientiae, Sonnekus Part III, O Viridissma Virga, Sonnekus Part IV, O Felix Apparitio, Sonnekus Part V, Aer Enim, Sonnekus Part VI, Et Ideo Puellae, Sonnekus Part VII, Deus Enim Rorem, Sonnekus Part VIII, Sed Diabolus, Sonnekus Part IX
Irene Kurka (soprano)
EDITION WANDELWEISER RECORDS EWR 1201 (CD)

Hildegard von Bingen: Vox Cosmica
ABELARD: Planctus David super Saul et lonatha
HILDEGARD: O tu suavissima; Divine Love (Karitas Habundat); Ave Maria; For the Creator (O Quam Mirabilis); O virtus sapientae
JOHANSEN, P: Meditation I; Meditation II; Meditation III; Meditation IV
Arianna Savall (singer, harp), Hirundo Maris
CARPE DIEM CD16304 (CD mid-price)

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