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HAVPCD324 – The Voice Of My Beloved
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| Disk Title | The Voice Of My Beloved |
| Settings of the Song of Songs from the Renaissance to the present day | |
| Soloists | Paul Wingfield |
| Rebecca Taylor | |
| Choir | Lincoln College Chapel Choir |
| Location | Exeter College Chapel, Oxford |
| Date Recorded | July 2006 |
| Audio Tracks | 12 |
Lincoln College Chapel Choir
Lincoln College Chapel Choir holds a fine reputation amongst the vocal ensembles of Oxford University, singing evensong weekly and on special feast days in Lincoln’s beautiful seventeenth-century chapel. The choir frequently visits cathedrals across the UK and has recently sung evensong at Westminster Abbey, St.George’s Chapel, Windsor and Eton College.
The choir makes two tours annually: a UK tour during the Easter vacation and an international tour at the start of the summer vacation. Past tours have taken the choir to Santiago de Compostela, Switzerland and Rome where they had the privilege of singing for Pope John Paul II. recently the choir toured to Dublin as resident choir at Christ Church Cathedral. The forthcoming UK tour of northwest England for Easter 2007 will include performances at Blackburn Cathedral as well as recording four services for the Radio 4 Daily Service.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 02.16 | Ego Flos Campi | Francisco Guerrero |
| 2 | 03.44 | Osculetur Me Osculo Oris Sui | Orlando Lassus |
| 3 | 02.44 | My Beloved Spake | Patrick Hadley |
| 4 | 04.15 | Ego Flos Campi | Clemens Non Papa |
| 5 | 04.35 | Tota Pulchra Es | John Caldwell |
| 6 | 04.10 | As The Apple Tree | Robert Walker |
| 7 | 07.40 | Vidi Speciosam | Tomás Luis de Victoria |
| 8 | 04.28 | Come, My Beloved | Richard Pantcheff |
| 9 | 08.44 | Vadam et Circuibo Civitatem | Tomás Luis de Victoria |
| 10 | 02.52 | Set Me As A Seal | William Walton |
| 11 | 03.32 | Nigra Sum Tomas | Luis de Victoria |
| 12 | 01.56 | Rise Up, My Love | Healey Willan |
The Song of Songs On encountering the Song of Songs for the first time, perhaps the most common reaction is one of surprise. What is a love poem, and especially a love poem replete with apparently erotic imagery, doing in the Bible? Traditionally, the Song was ascribed to King Solomon of Israel and read figuratively, as an allegory or a parable of the love of God for His people.
As such, the book was a favourite both of Christian and Jewish commentators; in the first century, Rabbi Akiba wrote, “The whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel; all the Writings are holy, and the Song of Songs is the holy of holies”.
Today, many see the figurative interpretation of the Song of Songs as fanciful or forced and emphasise its significance as a poem celebrating human love. Nonetheless, the importance and popularity which some passages of the Song acquired as liturgical texts cannot be explained apart from the allegorical reading of the Song.
