Vurdering: 4/5

"This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us exspected ... Harry Christophers certainly acknowledges Palestrina as 'the master craftsman' while also treating him as an artist capable of highly subtle textures inspired by his desire to clearly portray the words he sets ... There are many thoughtful and nuanced moments in his motets for St. John the Baptist ... But perhaps the finest moments are in the motets from the Song of Songs, which seem to catch Palestrina at his most sensuous. Those falling phrases in 'Descendi in hortum meum', for instance, is ravishing"