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O presul vere civitatis
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Cover of 'Gothic Voices Award Winners' (CDS44251/3)
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Track 7 on CDA66039 [6'12]
Track 7 on CDS44251/3 CD1 [6'12] 3CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
O presul vere civitatis
O presul vere civitatis celebrates Saint Disibod, the patron of the monastery where Hildegard was raised. She composed this sequence in response to Abbot Cuno of Disibodenberg who wrote to her asking for a copy of anything ‘that God reveals to you about our patron’. She certainly sent him this poem; we do not know whether it was accompanied by the music. Hildegard evokes the itinerant hermit’s life that brought Disibod to the place later to be the site of the monastery, and emphasizes his founder’s role through a stream of architectural, cloistral imagery. The ‘finial-stone’ which introduces this imagery is, of course, Christ (see, for example, Matthew 21: 42).

from notes by Christopher Page © 1982

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Details for CDA66039 track 7
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ISRC
GB-AJY-84-03907
Duration
6'12
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 (CDA66039)
    Disc 1 Track 7
    Release date: April 1985
  2. Gothic Voices Award Winners (CDS44251/3)
    Disc 1 Track 7
    Release date: September 2006
    3CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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