Music Inspired by the Song of Songs

Musical settings of love inspired by The Song of Songs, performed by ORA Singers, Stile Antico, the Bournemouth Choir and Sinfonietta, and The Folger Consort.

Show Notes

Antoine Brumel, John Barber: Sicut ilium

  • ORA Singers; Suzy Digby, conductor

Henry Purcell: My Beloved Spake

  • The Folger Consort and Cathedra

Jacob Clemens non Papa, Francisco Guerrero: Ego flos campi

  • Stile Antico

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

  • Frederick Riddle, viola; Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Choir; Norman Del Mar, conductor

Tomas Luis de Victoria, Jonathan Dove: Vadam et circuibo

  • ORA Singers; Suzy Digby, conductor

Percy Grainger: Love Verses from The Song of Solomon

  • Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner Orchestra; John Eliot Gardener, conductor