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How Fair Thou Art: Biblical Passions by Palestrina
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD450
Barcode: 0635212045022
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th March 2016
That erotic celebration of human love, the Song of Songs, seems a strange subject to set to music for a pope, but all Italy knew that Gregory XIII was more than a little worldly; after all, his son, Giacomo, was a prominent cardinal. Palestrina’s intense, lascivious pieces would surely have appealed to their dedicatee, with their praise of rounded navels, sweet breasts and the comely daughters of Jerusalem. The King’s Singers maintain an admirably cool approach to these 16th-century sizzlers, and bookend them with four of the composer’s more sober Marian motets, but their trademark sound is marred by some disappointing vibrato creeping into the countertenor lines. 
