Stile Antico's third recording won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music, reached the top of the US Classical Chart and was named in Amazon's Best of 2009 list. The beautiful and erotic texts of the Song of Songs, a love-poem traditionally attributed to King Solomon, inspired the great composers of the Continental Renaissance to some of their most ardent music. This rich selection traces an emotional arc from the intensity of the Flemish masters to the most vivid, madrigialian motets by Vivanco and Victoria.