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O Jerusalem
O Ierusalem celebrates Saint Rupert. Hildegard re-founded his monastery in 1150 and moved there with her nuns. The original buildings were destroyed by the Normans (the ‘fools’ of the Sequence), providing Hildegard with a potent but implicit comparison between her monastery and Jerusalem, destroyed on Earth and rebuilt in Heaven (Revelations 21, whence some of the imagery of this Sequence is derived). The ‘living stones’ (‘vivis lapidibus’) have been taken from the hymn Urbs beata Ierusalem for the dedication of a church (but compare 1 Peter 2: 4–5). Perhaps Hildegard composed this Sequence for the dedication ceremony, or for its commemoration. In this case the ‘ostensio’ of stanza six may be an ostension, or ‘showing’, of the relics of Saint Rupert during the ceremony.

from notes by Christopher Page © 1982

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Details for CDA30009 track 4
Artists
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices
Christopher Page (conductor)
Emily van Evera (soprano)
Poppy Holden (soprano)
Judith Stell (soprano)
Doreen Muskett (symphony)
Robert White (reed drones)
ISRC
GB-AJY-84-03904
Duration
8'02
Recording date
14 September 1981
Recording venue
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Martin Compton
Recording engineer
Tony Faulkner
Hyperion usage
  1. Hildegard of Bingen: A feather on the breath of God (CDA30009)
    Disc 1 Track 4
    Release date: October 2010
    Deletion date: August 2012
    Hyperion 30th Anniversary series — Superseded by CDA66039
  2. Hildegard of Bingen: A feather on the breath of God (CDA66039)
    Disc 1 Track 4
    Release date: April 1985
  3. Gothic Voices Gramophone Award Winners Collection (CDS44251/3)
    Disc 1 Track 4
    Release date: September 2006
    3CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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