Palestrina's Fourth Book of Motets was dedicated to his patron Pope Gregory XIII and published in Rome in 1584. He took as his text The Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon). The 29 motets, written in an age of religious tumult and Counter-Reformation, evoke the love of Christ in devotional music of chamber-like refinement and joy. This recording also includes plainchant antiphons related to the texts, and the motets Afferentur Regi and Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui.
8 Oleum Effusum - Ecce Tu Pulcher Es - Mirjam Schubert/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
9 Tota Pulchra Es Maria - Tota Pulchra Es - Mirjam Schubert/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
10 Veni de Libano, Sponsa Mea - Vulnerasti Cor Meum - Ansgar Teichgraber
11 Sicut Lilium - Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas - Mirjam Schubert/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
12 Fulcite Me Floribus, Stipate Me Malis - Introduxit Me Rex - Laura Smith
13 Laeva Eius - Laeva Ejus - Laura Smith
14 Quis Est Iste, Qui Venit de Edom - Vox Dilecti Mei - Laura Smith
15 Jam Hiems Transiit - Surge, Propera, Amica Mea - Mirjam Schubert/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
16 Dilectus Meus Loquitur Mihi - Surge, Amica Mea - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
17 Ego Dilecto - Dilectus Meo Mihi - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
18 Quo Abiit Dilectus Tuus - Surgam Et Circuibo Civitatem - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
19 Quo Abiit Dilectus Tuus - Adiuro Vos - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
- Disc 2 -
1 Dilectus Meus Candidus Et Rubicundus - Caput Eius Aurum Optimum - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
2 Dilectus Meus Mihi Et Ego Illi - Dilectus Meus Descendit - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
3 Pulchra Es Et Decora - Pulchra Es, Amica Mea - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
4 Quae Est Ista Quae Ascendit Sicut Aurora - Quae Est Ista, Quae Progreditur - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
5 Malos Male Perdet, Et Vineam Suam - Descendi in Hortum Nucum - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
6 Quam Pulchra Es, Amica Mea - Quam Pulchri Sunt - Mirjam Schubert/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
7 Ista Est Speciosa Inter Filias Jerusalem - Duo Ubera Tua - Florian Durner
8 Quae Est Ista Speciosa Sicut Columba - Quam Pulchra Es Et Quam Decora - Florian Durner
9 Ego Dilecto Meo - Guttur Tuum - Florian Durner
10 Argentum Et Aurum Non Est Mihi - Veni, Veni Dilecte Mi - Florian Durner
11 Adducentur Regi Virgines Post Eam - Noe Kains/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
12 Afferentur Regi Virgines Post Eam - Palestrina Ensemble Munich
13 Audi Filia Et Vide - Sarah M. Newman/Palestrina Ensemble Munich
14 Quam Pulchri Sunt Gressus Tui - Palestrina Ensemble Munich
Palestrina's Fourth Book of Motets was dedicated to his patron Pope Gregory XIII and published in Rome in 1584. He took as his text The Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon). The 29 motets, written in an age of religious tumult and Counter-Reformation, evoke the love of Christ in devotional music of chamber-like refinement and joy. This recording also includes plainchant antiphons related to the texts, and the motets Afferentur Regi and Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui.
