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 seventeenth 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: Liebeslieder 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."
Zeit der Dämmerung — Die Wurzeln der Musik, Musica Antiqua Wien, Bernhard Klebel (Christophorus), Disc CHR 77003
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 (Disc details).
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets, Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone (Glossa, 2008), Disc GCD 921406
This CD includes ten motets by Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590), rediscovered by Cristle Judd, who identifies them as the first polyphonic setting of the entire Song of Songs. (Details available from Early Music FAQ and ArkivMusic.)
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden, Tapestry (Telarc, 1998), Disc CD-80486
This CD contains Hildegard of Bingen's "O Ecclesia"; "Osculetur me" from the twelfth-century St. Martial Repertory; "Dilectus Meus" from the thirteenth-century Wienhausen Convent's Liederbuch, and traditional Sephardic instrumentals. It also includes several recent compositions, such as the Israeli song "Dodi Li" by Nira Chen, Shira Kammen's "Awake, North Wind!," Ivan Moody's three motets "Canticum Canticorum," William Sharlin's "Shir Hashirim," and Max Helfman's "Set Me as a Seal Upon Thy Heart." Five of the compositions are introduced by Ashkenazi chanting of the relevant Hebrew text of Shir Hashirim. The music is arranged and performed by Tapestry. (Details from Early Music FAQ).
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria, Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi, 2009), Disc HMU 807489
This CD contains 6 selections of plainchant and 13 selections from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: Clemens non Papa, Palestrina, Guerrero, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria, Lhériter, Ceballos, and Vivanco. (Details available from Early Music FAQ and ArkivMusic. Review from ChordStrike.)
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques (ATMA Classique, 2008), ACD2 2503, ASIN: B0013XZ35A
This CD contains 16 selections (from the fifteenth to the twentieth century) composed by Lassus, Palestrina, Heinrich Schütz, Domenico Mazzocchi, Willan, William Walton, Thomas Tomkins, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Marin Marais, Dunstable, and Henry Purcell. (Details available from Early Music FAQ and ArkivMusic.)
The composers are listed in order of their birth.
Gregorian Chant and Plainchant (early)
"Anima mea liquefacta est".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
"Dum esset rex" (antiphon)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Nigra sum" (antiphon)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Tota pulchra es" (alleluia)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Laeva eius" (antiphon)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Speciosa facta es" (antiphon)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Iam hiems transiit" (antiphon)
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
"O Ecclesia occuli tui, sequence for Saint Ursula & her Companions".
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden.
Repertory of the St. Martial Abbey, Limoges (Twelfth Century)
"Osculetur Me".
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden.
Worcester Antiphonary (Antiphonale Monasticum Wigarniense) (about 1240)
"Rex Salomon".
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden.
Songbook of the Wienhausen Convent, Saxony (Thirteenth Century)
"Dilectus Meus".
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Come Into My Garden.
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: Liebeslieder des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts.
"Quam pulchra es".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
Motet "Quam pulchra es" (Codex de Trente, 1440–1480).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
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.
Jean Lhéritier (around 1480–after 1552)
"Nigra sum"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
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.
"Quam pulchra es"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
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.
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (around 1510-1555)
"Ego dormio".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
"Ego flos campi".
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590, Italian)
"Osculetur me"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Nigra sum, sed formosa"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Si ignoras"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Ecce tu pulchra es"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Ego rosa saron"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Capite nobis vulpes parvulas"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"In lectulo meo"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Adiuro vos filiae Ierusalem"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Feculum fecit sibi rex Salomon"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
"Ego veni in hortum meum"
Recorded on
Gioseffo Zarlino: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis & Selected Motets.
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
"Ego Flos Campi"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Ego Flos Campi"
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.
"Quasi Cedrus" (instrumental)
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.
"Surge, Propera Amica Mea"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Trahe me post te"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (around 1525-1594)
"Osculetur me"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"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
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"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, Spanish)
"Hortus conclusus" (instrumental)
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.
"Hortus conclusus"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Orlande de Lassus (1532–1594)
"Veni, dilecte mi"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Motet "Veni in hortum meum" (Sacrae cantiones, 1562)
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548?-1611, Spanish)
"Nigra sum sed formosa".
(Written by 1561 in Spain).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Song of Songs.
"Vadam et circuibo"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
"Vidi speciosam"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Jan Tollius (around 1550-around 1603, Dutch)
"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.
"Veni, dilecti mi"
Recorded on
Song of Songs: Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria.
Leonhard Lechner (circa 1553-1606, German)
"Er küsse mich mit dem Kuß seines Mundes" (the first section of
Das erste Kapitel des Hohenliedes Salomonis).
Recorded on Zeit der Dämmerung — Die Wurzeln der Musik.
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.
Verse anthem, "My Beloved Spake" (Musica Deo sacra, 1668).
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.
Motet, "Ego dormio" (Cantiones sacrae, 1625).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
"Vulnerasti cor meum".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
"Vulnerasti cor meum" (Cantiones sacrae, 1625).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
"Stehe auf, meine Freundin".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
Concerto, "Anima mea liquefacta est" (Symphonae sacrae I, 1629).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Concerto, "Adjuro vos" (Symphonae sacrae I, 1629).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
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.
Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665)
"Dialogo della cantica" (Musiche sacre e marali, 1640).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
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.
Marin Marais (1656-1728, French)
"Passacaille".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695, English)
"My Beloved Spake".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum: Das Hohelied der Liebe in Motetten alter Meister.
Verse anthem,"My Beloved Spake" (1677)
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1637-1707)
"Pulchra es et decora" ("pour les vêpres de l'Assomption de la Vierge", 1687).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
"Pulchra es et decora" ("pour les vêpres de l'Assomption de la Vierge", 1687).
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Petit Motet, "Dilecti mi".
Recorded on
Canticum Canticorum, Les Voix Baroques.
Joachim Grabinski has created a list of settings of texts from Song of Songs.