On his Ravello Records release Circle of Love and Other Choral offerings, composer Craig Madden Morris presents a song cycle for chorus and piano set...

On his Ravello Records release Circle of Love and Other Choral offerings, composer Craig Madden Morris presents a song cycle for chorus and piano set to traditional texts from The Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, the Book of Ruth, Malachi, and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as well as original verse by the composer. This work portrays the blossoming and growth of love, from the initial passion to the poignancy of later years. Morris offers two other works – The Tiger, set to the poem by William Blake, and And Abraham Remained Standing Before the Lord – both of which challenge our understanding of the paradoxes and actions of a just G-d. Arise My Love and The Rubaiyat were finalists in the 2010 Meistersingers Choral Competition.