a cappella SATB choir
2013
Duration 8’
Instrumentation a cappella SATB choir
First Performance 2 May 2015, Chester Cathedral, UK; Philip Rushforth (conductor)
Commissioned by Philip Rushforth for the choir of Chester Cathedral and in loving memory of Capt. William Robert and Mrs Vera Willis
Further Performances
7.6.15 10:30 Kings College, Cambridge; Kings College Choir, Stephen Cleobury conductor
11.7.15 St Brandon’s Church, Brancepeth, Durham; The Durham Singers, Julian Wright conductor
18.7.15 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Buckinghamshire; The Choir of St. Michael & All Angels Church
18.9.15 National Portrait Gallery, London; The Portrait Choir
19.9.15 National Portrait Gallery, London; The Portrait Choir
27.9.15 Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, Hertfordshire; The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury conductor
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from Song of Solomon
I
Winter is Past
2:10-13
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
II
Among the Lilies
2:16, 1:2
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
III
Many Waters
8:6-7
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:
if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
