How Fair Thou Art
Biblical Passions by Palestrina
The King's Singers
[The King's Singers] reveal simultaneously its devotional and madrigalian qualities
How Fair Thou Art
Biblical Passions by Palestrina
The King's Singers
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[The King's Singers] reveal simultaneously its devotional and madrigalian qualities
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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.
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Awards and reviews
March 2017
[The King's Singers] reveal simultaneously its devotional and madrigalian qualities
June 2016
The King’s Singers’ sweetness of tone seems perfectly to march the sense of the text. The decision to break up the cycle allows them to vary the scoring from one madrigal to the next; at times both countertenors take the top line, which yields a novel sonority
6th March 2016
The King’s Singers maintain an admirably cool approach to these 16th-century sizzlers.
