No songs of love are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style...

No songs of love are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style and content. It contains lyric poems of love and courtship as might have been sung at Jewish weddings. For Christians, these poems speak to the beauty of the union of Christ and his ‘bride’, the Church. The present collection presents a diverse group of choral works written between the 16th c. and the present day, with most inspired by this unique sacred text.