Hildegard of Bingen Feather on Breath of God Gothic Voices LP 1982Medival Choral
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Hildegard of Bingen Feather on Breath of God Gothic Voices LP 1982 Medival Choral 12th Century
Absolutely Beautiful you fall in and relax.....UK Import
Recorded in the Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London Sept 14 1981 Gatefold sleeve Latin & English lyrics inside.
A Feather on the Breath of God is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and recorded by British vocal ensemble Gothic Voices with English soprano Emma Kirkby. It was released by the Hyperion Records label in 1982
A Feather on the Breath of God is an album of early medieval plainchant. The decision to record the album was taken by the head of Hyperion Records, Ted Perry, after hearing a broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of music by Hildegard of Bingen, performed by an ensemble of singers directed by the musicologist Christopher Page. The broadcast inspired Perry to bring the vocalists together to record an album.
The title of the album is taken from a passage in Hildegard's writings in which she describes herself:
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I '"A feather on the breath of God."
Hildegard of Bingen OSB ( c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germanyprice rating