The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen

by Hildegard von Bingen / Anonymous 4

The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 February 2005
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:06:05
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The renowned all-female vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 delivers an exquisite interpretation of 12th-century liturgical chants composed by the mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The purely a cappella recording emphasizes the sweeping, melismatic vocal lines and the profoundly spiritual, ethereal atmosphere central to high medieval monophonic chant.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, a-cappella, atmospheric, choral, spirituality, polyphonic, ancient

Tracklist

  1. Hymn "Veni creator spiritus" (4:31)
  2. Sequence "Veni spiritus eternorum alme" (2:42)
  3. Antiphon "O quam mirabilis est" (3:31)
  4. Vision 1 "The fire of creation": Et ego homo (1:45)
  5. Vision 1 "The fire of creation": Et audivi (3:11)
  6. Sequence "O ignis spiritus paracliti" (7:52)
  7. Vision 2 "Wisdom and her sisters": Vidi etiam (2:22)
  8. Vision 2 "Wisdom and her sisters": Prima autem (3:12)
  9. Responsory "O felix anima" (6:40)
  10. Vision 3 "The fiery spirit": Iterumque vocem (1:59)
  11. Vision 3 "The fiery spirit": Et imago (5:00)
  12. Hymn "O ignee spiritus" (10:06)
  13. Vision 4 "Love": In vera (2:06)
  14. Vision 4 "Love": Et audivi vocem (3:22)
  15. Antiphon "Caritas habundant in omnia" (2:18)
  16. Antiphon "O eterne deus" (2:34)
  17. Hymn "Beata nobis gaudia" (2:47)

Credits

  • Hildegard Von Bingen - primary artist, composed by
  • Anonymous 4 - primary artist, ensemble
  • Paul F. Witt - edited by
  • Jacqueline Horner - vocals
  • Johanna Maria Rose - vocals
  • Marsha Genensky - vocals
  • Susan Hellauer - vocals

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