Ardete

This setting of a Latin text by Bianca Maria Meda expresses a fervent desire for divine love, personified as celestial flames. The SATB choir evokes the soul's burning passion, its joy in languishing and being consumed by this spiritual fire. The composer uses imagery of sweet burning and delightful incandescence to convey the rapture of spiritual ecstasy. It is a motet for sacred occasions, a direct and moving plea for the soul to be set ablaze with heavenly love and charity, culminating in a joyful Alleluia. The music is designed to convey intense spiritual emotion, seeking to draw the listener into the devotional fervour of the text.