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Voice of the Blood - Hildegard von Bingen (Import) (CD)

By: Barbara Thornton (Conductor), Sequentia (Ensemble), Barbara Thornton (Performer), Carol Schlaikjer (Performer) and Consuelo Sañudo (Performer)

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VOICE OF THE BLOOD is so named because the texts of Hildegard of Bingen's songs performed here refer often to the spilled blood of St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. Sequentia wonderfully presents Hildegard's monophonic "song cycle" here in the order she probably intended.

Ursula lived in the 4th Century, but at the time Hildegard lived (12th Century) her tale of divine virginity inspired renewed interest in her cult, mainly through the supposed discovery of her bones and the visions of her received by Elisabeth of Sch”nau.

Ursula was promised to a pagan English prince, but was saved from this marriage by an angelic order to make a pilgrimage to Rome. She was accompanied by 11 noblewomen (which over time was inflated to 11,000). On their way back her group was killed in Cologne by Attila the Hun (not historically viable, but such is folklore).

Hildegard, a highly spiritual woman who herself received divine messages (the last song on this release contains words she created to depict the indescribable things she saw and heard), obviously knew, loved and related to Ursula's story. Thanks, Sequentia, for bringing this savory piece of history to life!

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