The King's Singers - How Fair Thou Art: Biblical Passions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Alma redemptoris mater
02. Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
03. Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
04. Tota pulchra es anima mea
05. Nigra sum, sed Formosa
06. Regina Caeli
07. Trahe me, post te
08. Veni, veni delicte mi
09. Surge, propera amica mea
10. Descendi in hortum meum
11. Ave regina caelorum
12. Sicut lilium inter spinas I
13. Osculetur me
14. Ecce tu pulcher es
15. Sicut lilium inter spinas II
16. Salve Regina



The King’s Singers return with a new early-music recording that features 12 of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s beautiful polyphonic choral settings of the ‘Canticum Canticorum’ – better known as ‘The Song of Songs’ or Canticles, a collection of poetry in the Hebrew Bible on the theme of the joy and ecstasy of human love. These settings are framed by four of Palestrina’s Marian motets, works in honour of the Virgin Mary which he composed throughout his life.

This recording is the first to feature performances from the group’s new tenor Julian Gregory.

DOWNLOAD ALBUM [Hi-Res]