About This:
Ellen Oak sings the songs of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1176). Hildegard was a German Benedictine, musician, prophet, judge, healer, and mystic. She composed text and music for 72 songs and a play about the soul's journey in God. Oak's rich, haunting mezzo voice, naked and alone, soars and sweeps through the resonant silence. Let these extraordinary, intimate, ecstatic melodies and images of divine freshness carry you to the source of comfort, courage, and creativity. Recorded live in the chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Clyde MO. For complete texts and translations, please go to www.wisdomatplay.com.