Discography of Song of Songs Music
in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeDiscs
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister, Vokalensemble Cantos, Osnabrück; Würzburger Violenconsort; Michael Tausch, Orgelpositiv; directed by Johannes Rahe (Carus, 1991) Disc LC 3989
This CD includes a sampling that spans four centuries. It includes Song of Songs 5:6-8 in Gregorian chant and pieces by composers from the fourteenth through the seventheenth centuries: Machaut, Dufay, Desprez, Tollius, Charpentier, Willaert, Clemens non Papa, Schütz, Tomkins, Franck, Purcell, Dunstable, Paestrina, and Févin. (Details are available from Early Music FAQ)
Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance, Isaak Ensemble Heidelberg (Christophorus, 1992, 1993).
This CD focuses on compositions from the Italian Renaissance. It includes pieces by Bernardi, Bassano, Grandi, Cima, Cesare, Kapsberger, Fescobaldi, Rigatti, and Merula.
Siehe, meine Freundin, du bist schön, Ensemble "Alte Musik Dresden" (Raumklang, 2000)
With an emphasis on German composers, this CD includes pieces by Franck, Schütz, Bernardi, Hammerschmidt, Cima and Demantius.
Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs, Orchestra of the Renaissance directed by Richard Cheetham and conducted by Michael Noone (Glossa Music, 2000) Disc 921403
This CD focuses on Spanish composers. It includes "Missa Vulnerasti cor meum" by Morales, and other pieces by Guerrero, Ceballos, Victoria, Vivanco, Févin and Gombert. Details are available from Early Music FAQ and from arkivmusic.
Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum, by the Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter (Collegium Records, 1994)
This is one of several CDs devoted entirely to Palestrina's settings of the Song of Songs. John Rutter does a very nice job of directing the Cambridge Singers. (Details)
Pour L'Amour: Liebeslider des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Instrumentalkreis Helga Weber (Christophorus, 1980, 1993). Disc CHE 0042-2.
This CD of medieval love music includes John Dunstable's ethereal "Quam pulchra es."
Middle Ages and Renaissance, Musica Antiqua Wien, Bernhard Klebel (Christophorus) Disc CHR 88003
This CD includes "Er küsse mich mit dem Kuß seines Mundes" (the first section of Das erst und ander Kapitel des Hoheliedes Salomonis) by Leonhard Lechner. MIDI and scores are available for Lechner's composition.
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden, Tapestry (Telarc, 1998) Disc CD-80486
This CD includes several recent compositions, such as the Israeli song "Dodi Li," Shira Kammen's "Awake, North Wind!" and Ivan Moody's three motets "Canticum Canticorum." It also contains a setting of Hildegard of Bingen's "O Ecclesia"; "Osculetur me" from the twelfth-century St. Martial Repertory; "Dilectus Meus" from the thirteenth-century Kloster Wienhausen Liederbuch; and Ashkenazi chanting of several sections of Shir Ha-Shirim. (Details).
Composers and their Compositions
Gregorian Chant (early)
"Anima mea liquefacta est".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300-1377)
"Quia amore langueo".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.John Dunstable (around 1380-1453, English).
"Quam pulchra es".
Recorded on Pour L'Amour: Liebeslider des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts."Quam pulchra es".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Guillaume Dufay (around 1400-1474)
"Anima mea liquefacta est".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Josquin Desprez (around 1440-around 1521)
"Ecce tu pulchra es".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Antoine de Févin (1470-1511)
"Descende in hortum meum".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister."Vulnerasti cor meum".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Adrian Willaert (around 1485-1562, Dutch, Venetian)
Tota pulchra es".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Nicolas Gombert (about 1490-1556, Flemish)
"Tota pulchra es".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs."Quam pulchra es".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Jacobus Clemens non Papa (around 1510-1555)
"Ego dormio".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (around 1525-1594)
"Osculetur me"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Trahe me"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Nigra sum"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Vineam meam non custodivi"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Si ignoras"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Pulchrae sunt genae ruae"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Fas ciculus myrrae"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Ecce tu pulchre es"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Tota pulchra es"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Vulnerasti cor meum"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Sicut lilium inter spinas"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Introduxit me Rex"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Laeua ejus"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Vox dilecti mei"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Surge, propera"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Surge, anima mea"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Dilectus meus mihi"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Surgam et circuibo civitatem"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Adjuro vos"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Caput ejus"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Dilectus meus descendit"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Pulchra es"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Quae es ista"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Descendi in hortum nucum"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Quam pulchri sunt"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Duo ubera tua"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Quam pulchra es"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Guttur tuum"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Veni, dilecte mi"
Recorded on Palestrina, The Song of Songs: Motecta ex Cantico Canticorum."Veni, dilecte mi"
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Rodrigo de Ceballos (around 1530-1591)
"Hortus conclusus" (instrumental)
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Cristóbal de Morales (around 1500-1553, Spanish)
"Kyrie" from the Mass "Vulnerasti cor meum". (Written 1542-1544 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs."Gloria" from the Mass "Vulnerasti cor meum". (Written 1542-1544 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs."Credo" from the Mass "Vulnerasti cor meum". (Written 1542-1544 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs."Sanctus" from the Mass "Vulnerasti cor meum". (Written 1542-1544 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs."Agnus Dei" from the Mass "Vulnerasti cor meum". (Written 1542-1544 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548?-1611, Spanish)
"Nigra sum sed formosa". (Written by 1561 in Spain).
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Jan Tollius (around 1550-around 1603)
"Ego flos campi".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Sebastián de Vivanco (about 1551-1622)
"Veni dilecte mi".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.Giovanni Bassano (1558-1617)
Diminution über "Introduxit me rex" (Palestrina).
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656, English)
"It is my well-beloved's voice".
lyrics.
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570-1622)
"Ricercare a quattro".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Sonata per cornetto e Violone".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Adjuro vos filiæ Hierusalem".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Surge propera amica mea".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Alessandro Grandi (1575-1630)
"O quam tu pulchra es amica mea".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Tota pulchra es amica mea".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Steffano Bernardi (1580-1638)
"O dulcissima deliecta mea".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Melchior Franck (1580-1639)
"Fahet uns die Füchse".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651, German living in Italy)
"Nigra sum sed formosa".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Anima mea liquefacta est".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
"La Bergamasca".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance."Canzon prima per basso solo".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
"Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister."Vulnerasti cor meum".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister."Stehe auf, meine Freundin".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Giovanni Martino Cesare (1590-1667)
Canzona "La Foccarina".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Canzona "La Hieronyma".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Targuinio Merula (1594-1665)
"Nigra sum sed formosa".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (1615-1649)
"Quasi cedrus exaltata sum".
Recorded on Hohelied-Motetten: Der Italienischen Renaissance.Henry Purcell (1659-1695, English)
"My beloved spake".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1637-1707)
"Pulchra es et decora".
Recorded on Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.Settings
Joachim Grabinski has created a list of settings of texts from Song of Songs.