Pre-Order: Sixteen * Palestrina: Song Of Songs [New CD] 5/14/13 and Minnie Riperton

and Minnie Riperton

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Coronation Cantata

Pre-Order: Sixteen * Palestrina: Song Of Songs [New CD] 5/14/13 and Minnie RipertonPalestrina'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 is famous for. Compared to some of his more formal liturgical works, Palestrina's Song of Songs have a more sensual and lyrical