February 4, 2016

How Fair Art Thou: Biblical Passions by Palestrina - Pre-order Now

Our new album - How Fair Art Thou: Biblical Passions by Palestrina - is now available to pre-order ahead of its release on 4 March.The album features 12 of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s sublime 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.We recorded these tracks last year in St. Augustine's Church in Kilburn (London) and can safely say that this repertoire is beautiful to sing.We would like to thank Dr. David Skinner of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge for creating the new editions as well as Steve, Mike and the team at Signum Records for continuing to enable us to create high-quality recordings of beautiful music.

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