The Temple Singers
Thomas Allery director
Charlie Andrews organ
The love poems in the Old Testament known variously as "The Song of Solomon", "The Song of Songs", and "The Canticles" have inspired artists and musicians through the ages. This beautifully-crafted programme of choral music ranging from Renaissance polyphony to serene settings of these ancient texts by living composers is interspersed with ethereal chant by Hildegard. An hour of exquisite music from one of London's finest professional church choirs in one of the City's most historic and beautiful churches.
Victoria: Vidi speciosam
Hildegard: Flos campi
Lassus: Osculetur me
Jonathan Dove: Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Hadley: My beloved spake
Hildegard: O filie Israel
Schütz: Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat
Tomkins: My beloved spake
Hildegard: Ego caritas
Eleanor Daley: Upon your heart
Hildegard: O diliectissime flos
Francis Grier: Dilectus meus mihi
Clemens non Papa: Ego Flos campi
60 minutes