Back in 1980 I wrote and performed a piece for alto and guitar based on the verses from the Song of Solomon. This can be heard on youtube ("My beloved is mine from the Song of Solomon for alto and guitar" - with an image of a gazelle) Several years later Guy Protheroe suggested that it would work well as a choral piece for his Garden of Love concert, so he arranged it accordingly. The original recording from that concert can also be heard on Youtube (search for "Upon my bed by night" - also with an image of a gazelle). I decided this year, 2017, that it deserved another performance, so I commissioned Budapest Scoring to record it (Zoltán Pad conducting the choir, with alto soloist Zsuzsanna Bojta, baritone soloist Dénes Murvai and guitarist András Csáki). This is the result. ... and these are the words: Upon my bed by night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him but found him not, I called him, I called him, but he gave no answer. I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets, in the squares. I will seek him whom my soul loves Behold! You are beautiful my love my love behold you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead. My love my love My love My love! Upon my bed by night. I sought him. The voice of my belovèd behold he comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My belovèd is mine and I am his My love! My belovèd is like a gazelle or a young stag; behold! there he stands behind our wall gazing in at the window. My belovèd spake and said to me: "Arise my love, my fair one and come away for lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone." The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land