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About the chant:
Abbess Hildegard of Bingen presents a number of paradoxes to the "modern" mind. She was a woman in a man's world, yet she rose to command an abbey and wrote political advice to Holy Roman Emperors.
O pastor animarum's text simply and directly prays to the divine Son, whom Hildegard names "shepherd of souls...by which we all have been created." She asks this shepherd to liberate the pray-er from misery and languishing. Despite the simple and brief nature of the text, appropriate for a liturgical antiphon, the poetess deliberately invokes the most splendid antiphons of the church year, the great "O" Antiphons sung before Christmas. Her music, as well, transcends the mundane. In the first seven notes, Hildegard makes a characteristically dramatic leap up a melodic fifth, then completes the ascent of a full octave. The second phrase effects a balanced descent, and the third descends to the depths and races forward in a melismatic exploration of the word "created" before returning triumphantly to the tonic. The petition that forms the second half of the text perfectly echoes the same melodic pattern. Thus the singer of Hildegard's music literally touches God, as she literally sings His music.
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This chant was performed by Oxford Camerata - conductor: Jeremy Summerly #OxfordCamerata
Website: https://oxfordcamerata.com
(C) Naxos
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Chant text in Latin:
O Pastor animarum et o prima vox
per quam omnes creati sumus
nunc tibi placeat ut digneris nos
liberare de miseriis et languoribus nostris
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