11,000 Virgins (Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula)

Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - twelfth-century poet-composer, prophet and mystic, herbalist and healer - received her music in visions. Inspired by the legend of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins and intended to be sung by the nuns of her convent, her chants weave a hypnotic web of sound. ANONYMOUS 4 sing this music "in masterly fashion, with their characteristic intelligence, suppleness, spontaneity and quality that can only be called spiritual affinity" (New York Times).

"Their enchanting sound is seductive: intense, pure, supple and sensuous."
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"Anonymous 4 ... their virtuosity is astonishing."
- Sunday Telegraph

"This group is irresistible...the 12th century Abbess who created this music would have heartily and humbly approved."
- Derbyshire Life

"These singers...seem to have the most instinctive grasp of Hildegard's wide-ranging, quirkily chromatic, extravagantly melismatic music. They capture her fevered lyricism in masterly fashion, with their characteristic intelligence, suppleness, spontaneity and quality that can only be called spiritual affinity."
- New York Times