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How Fair Thou Art
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

How Fair Thou Art

The King's Singers

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212045022
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Catalog number: SIGCD 450
Releasedate: 20-05-16
- 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’

- this recording is the first to feature performances from the group’s new tenor Julian Gregory

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.