Earliest Settings of the Song of Solomon

Vox dilecti mei - The Voice of My Beloved
The Earliest Settings of the Song of Solomon (10th-15th centuries)
Ensemble Peregrina - Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett
Tacet 270 [SACD]

Contents:

  1. Epithalamia (prosa, Canterbury, 11th/12th c.)
  2. Salve nobilis V. Odor tuus (2-part responsory, Skant Lambrecht, 14th c.)
  3. Tota pulchra (motet, Bavaria, 14th c.)
  4. Epithalamia Estampie
  5. Regensburg Drama (12th c.)
  6. Dilectus meus / Veni sponsa salvotoris (troped antiphon, Preetz, 16th c.)
  7. Estampie
  8. Meliora sunt (antiphon, Silesia, 15th c. & Iceland, 17th c.)
  9. Osculetur me (antiphon, Tegernsee, 15th c.)
  10. Tota pulchra / Anima mea (motet, Revesby Abbey, 13th/14th c.)
  11. Epithalamium (Clairvaux, c.1300)
  12. ? Hildegard: Sicut malum (antiphon, Trier, 12th c.)
  13. Fulcite me floribus (motet, Bavaria, 14th c.)
  14. Bruno of Segni: Quis est hic (Italy, 11th/12th c.)
  15. Vox dilecti (antiphon, Tegernsee, 15th c.)
  16. Anima mea / Descendi in hortum / Alma (motet, France, 13th c.)
  17. In lectulo meo (antiphon Tegernsee, 15th c.)
  18. Venit dilectus meus (antiphon, England, 13th c. & 14th c.)

Performers: Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett (voice), Lorenza Donadini (voice), Hanna Järveläinen (voice), Grace Newcombe (voice, bray harp), Sabine Lutzenberger (voice), Matthieu Romanens (voice), Baptiste Romain (vielles)

Playing time: 67'

Recording date: March 2022 (Switzerland); released: 2023

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Todd M. McComb