A modern setting of a biblical wedding text.
Full Title The Song of Ruth - Petr Eben (1929 – 2007)
Notes Written in 1970 by the foremost Czech composer of contemporary classical music. Eben's music is influenced by gregorian chant and folk music, distinguished by strong melodies, and underpinned by more contemporary harmony.
Much of his music is sacred, and his most often played work is the cycle Sunday Music for Organ Solo written in 1959.
Duration 7 minutes
Performers required
- Mezzo-soprano and Organ (not piano)
Source of printed music Published by Universal Edition.
Originally in German
Translation:
*Where you go, I will go and where you stay I will stay.
Your people will be my people and your God my God. *
*Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.
May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely,
if anything but death separates you and me." *
Ruth (I, 16-17), NIV
