Rodrigo’s music for voice and orchestra includes settings of texts by his wife based on excerpts of the Dead Sea scrolls and simple Christmas verses. Music for a Salamancan Codex is a 1953 setting of a poem by the Spanish poet and philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno. It is here followed by an extended setting of the famous words of St Francis of Assisi. Quintessentially Spanish in their nature, Rodrigo’s choral works combine simple earthy folksong with a deep and devout sense of spirituality.