Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
MISSA L’HOMME ARMÉ
SONG OF SONGS:
nos. 16, 17 & 18
Surge amica mea
Dilectus meus mihi
Surgam et circuibo civitatem
De profundis clamavi
Parce mihi, Domine
Peccantem me quotidie
Si ambulavero in medio tribulationis
Tribulationes civitatum audivimus
Super flumina Babylonis
Tribularer si nescirem

Central to this sixth disc is Palestrina’s unjustly neglected 5-voice L’Homme armé Mass. Written before 1570, it is no mere technical showpiece, but contains music of the highest quality. It is accompanied on this disc by a group of penitential and devotional motets and Offertories eliciting from Palestrina his best and most moving music. Three further Song of Songs motets in the Sixteen’s ongoing complete survey complete the CD.