Edvard Grieg - Louis Vierne - Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Gerald Finzi - William Walton - Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Patrick Hadley - Antoine Brumel - Robert Walker - Howard Skempton - Nico Muhly - Healey Willan - Martin de Rivafrecha - Edward Bairstow

My Beloved's Voice: Sacred Songs of Love

Choir of Jesus College Cambridge / Mark Williams

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212037027

Catalog number: SIGCD 370
Releasedate: 18-07-14

Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the songs of Solomon.

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Songs of love have been written from the earliest records of human existence. None are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style and content. It contains lyric poems of love and courtship, as might have been sung at Jewish weddings. For Christians, these poems speak to the beauty of the union of Christ and his ‘bride’, the Church. The present collection presents a diverse group of choral works written between the 16th century and the present day, with most inspired by this unique sacred text.

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