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
Canciones 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.