Zefiro Torna - The Allegory Of Desire: The Song of Songs in Western and Oriental Traditions (2016)

‘Love means bringing people together, despite the differences or distance between them.’ With these words, Ghalia Benali announced the international concert project The Allegory of Desire on various social media. It is precisely in that spirit that this programme, a collaboration with Vocalconsort Berlin and Zefiro Torna, combines five centuries of settings of the Song of Songs by European composers with traditional and contemporary Arabic songs about desire, love and nostalgia. Its emotional horizon ranges from the sensuously erotic to the mystical and spiritual.

TRACKLIST
01. Hochzeitskantate: "Meine freundin, du bist schon" 03:15
02. Quam pulchra es 01:54
03. Favus distillans - Mw'soul 06:12
04. Maugre mon cuer - de ma dolour confortes - Quia amore l 03:14
05. Last embrace 04:01
06. Ego dormio 04:00
07. Dry Veins 04:01
08. Veni dilecti 04:03
09. O, quam tu pulchra es 02:55
10. Araftu'l Hawa 07:38
11. Vespro della beata Vergine, SV 206: "Pulchra es" 03:23
12. Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75, Cantata IV - Ad latus: "S 07:11
13. Vulnerasti cor meum 04:28
14. Lama Bada 05:28
15. Hochzeitskantate: "Meine freund ist mein" 08:43
16. Dama daiman 04:39