Antiphon for Virgins is a companion piece to Responsory (1992), a Hildegard text-setting also published by Composers Edition (ce-bi1r1).

Faces of beauty,
Beholding God,
Building in the dawn.
Blessed virgins,
How noble you are,
In whom God saw himself
When in you
He gave the first sign
Of heaven?s beauty.
You are an exquisite garden
Scented with all splendour.

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) trans. Oliver Davies (Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology, SPCK 1990)

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Recorded 6/7/2006, St Margaret Pattens Church, London: Gina Fergione/Brian Inglis