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DOR-93232

WINGS OF WISDOM

CANTY
Libby Crabtree, Mezzo-soprano ~ Ruth Dean, Soprano
Anne Lewis, Mezzo-soprano ~ Rebecca Taverner, Soprano and Bells


William Taylor
Harps and Symphony (medieval hurdy-gurdy)


DOR-93232 Cover Scotland and the Rhineland, besides being ancestral homelands of the Celts, share a spiritual heritage from the wandering Irish holy men who took Christianity to some of the most obscure corners of Europe.   In Scotland's case the missionary concerned was the celebrated St Columba, a saint much honoured in his own lifetime and ever since.   The man who evangelised the pagan tribes of the Rhineland, however, remains much more of a mystery.   That peripatetic priest was St Disibod, an Irish bishop whose life and works have been recorded for posterity solely by the pen of the remarkable Abbess Hildegard of Bingen who entered the religious life, enclosed with the anchoress Jutta in the walls of the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenburg, dedicated to that same, now obscure, Irish saint.
- Rebecca Taverner © 2001

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
[1.]   O virtus sapientiae 1:48
[2.]   O viriditas digiti Dei 5:07
[3.]   O presul vere digitatis 6:42
[4.]   O ecclesia (Instrumental) 2:38
[5.]   Caritas abundat 1:39
[6.]   O dulcissime amator (Symphonia virginum) 7:38
[7.]   O aeterne Deus 1:53
[8.]   O coruscans lux 2:49
[9.]   O viridissima virga (Instrumental) 2:07
[10.] Cum erubuerint & O quam magnum miraculum est 4:58
[11.] O clarissima mater 8:06

From the Inchcolm Antiphoner
[12.] O Columba insignis signifer 2:41
[13.] Os mutorum 1:40
[14.] Ave sanctorum Columba piissime 3:59
[15.] Carne solutus pater Columba 3:35

Total Program Length: 57:13



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