NAJI HAKIM
NAJI HAKIM

SET ME AS A SEAL UPON YOUR HEART, Læg mig som en seglring ved dit hjerte for soprano and organ/or piano, (other version : for SATB choir a cappella)

Title, Duration, Place, Year, Publisher, Dedicated to, Premiere (performer(s), place, date)

SET ME AS A SEAL UPON YOUR HEART, Læg mig som en seglring ved dit hjerte for SATB choir a cappella, (other version : for soprano and organ/or piano), 5', Chatou, 2008, Schott, - , Chamber Choir of Malmö Academy of Music, Mats Paulson, dir., église St Thomas d'Aquin, Paris, 03.05.09

Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart (Leg mig som en seglring ved dit hjerte) is a setting for SATB choir a cappella commissioned by Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University, (other version : for soprano and organ/or piano) of one of the most famous passages of King Solomon’s Song of Songs. 

 

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion as cruel as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a most vehement flame. 
Raging waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods sweep it away.

Song of Songs 8, 6-7

 

 

Naji Hakim : SET ME AS A SEAL UPON YOUR HEART, page 1, excerpt from the autograph manuscript