This is a choral composition that falls within the genre of modern classical music. Ola Gjeilo is a Norwegian composer and pianist known for his engaging and atmospheric choral works; here inspired by the Aurora Borealis. |
The text is the Latin Pulchra es, amica mea, from Song of Solomon:
Thou art beautiful, O my love,
sweet and comely as Jerusalem,
terrible as an army set in array.
Turn away thy eyes from me,
for they have made me flee away.
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