NEW Palestrina Song of Songs. Album by The Sixteen

Album Description Palestrina’s Song of Songs is one of the most beautiful and intimate collections of Renaissance sacred music and this album brings together all 29 settings performed by The Sixteen in one place. The cycle shows Palestrina at his most expressive and human, while still maintaining the balance, purity and clarity of text that he’s famous for. Compared to some of his more formal liturgical works, Palestrina’s Song of Songs have a more sensual and lyrical feel, reflecting the poetic and romantic nature of the text. Unusually for sacred music the Song of Songs are deeply romantic and sensual, yet Palestrina treats them with spiritual elegance, conveying the emotion through subtle harmonic shifts and melodic shaping. Artists The Sixteen Harry Christophers Track Listing CD1 No.1. Osculetur me osculo oris sui No.2. Trahe me post te No.3. Nigra sum sed formosa No.4. Vineam meam non custodivi No.5. Si ignoras te, O pulchra No.6. Pulchrae sunt genae tuae No.7. Fasciculus myrrhae dilectus No.8. Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte mi No.9. Tota pulchra es, amica mea No.10. Vulnerasti cor meum, soror mea No.11. Sicut lilium inter spinas No.12. Introduxit me rex No.13. Laeva eius sub capite meo No.14. Vox dilecti mei No.15. Surge, propera, amica mea CD2 No.16. Surge, amica mea No.17. Dilectus meus mihi No.18. Surgam et circuibo civitatem No.19. Adiuro vos filiae Hierusalem No.20. Caput eius aureum optimum No.21. Dilectus meus descendit No.22. Pulchra es, amica mea No.23. Quae est ista, quae progreditur No.24. Descendi in hortum meum No.25. Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui No.26. Duo ubera tua No.27. Quam pulchra es No.28. Guttur tuum sicut (previously unreleased) No.29. Veni, veni dilecte mi (previously unreleased)