SATB Choir
SKU:
HL.14041435
Composed
by Geoffrey Burgon. Large
Choral. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2010. Chester Music
#CH74250. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14041435).
UPC:
884088915070.
6.75x9.75x0.257
inches.
Features
five songs, also known as
St John Of The Cross
(Canciones Entre El Alma
Y El
Esposo).
- Where
can your hiding be
- But
have been found
again
- Of flowers and
emeralds sheen
- Now, as
she
longaspired
- Rejoice,
my love, with
me
Cancion
es entre el alma y el
esposo is a poem
consisting of forty
verses, reproduced below.
Havingpreviously set two
sections of it as
separate a cappella
choruses and one fortwo
countertenors andstrings,
I've long wanted to make
a complete setting of the
work and, by arranging
the countertenorpiece for
a cappella chorus and
setting the remaining
verses as two more
anthems for the same
forces,I'vecompleted the
task. The five pieces can
of course still be
performed separately, or
brought togetheras a
twenty-five minute
setting of Roy Campbell's
translation from the
original Spanish of this
vivid andintense
poem.Geoffrey Burgon,
May 2008.