o nobilissima viriditas

Text by Hildegard von Bingen
Performed by The Gregorian Singers

Soloists: Gabrielle Doran (Soprano), Elina Kala (Alto), Nicholas Karageorgiou (Tenor), and Kevin Seal (Bass)

Translation by Kate Brown:

O most noble greening power,
rooted in the sun,
shining in dazzling serenity
in a sphere
that no earthly excellence
can comprehend.
You are enclosed
in the embrace of divine mysteries.
You blush like the dawn,
and burn like a flame of the sun.

text by Hildegard von Bingen
for SATB choir

2006 premiere by the Eastern Washington University Symphonic Choir under the direction of Randel Wagner