To celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day, Ensemble Praecentores will present a concert featuring choral settings of the Song of Solomon.

The beautiful texts from this book have been interpreted many ways over the century, but ultimately, they present the beauty of Divine Love in its many facets. Praecentores will sing settings of this text by composers from the last 1500 years including several of Palestrina’s unequalled settings written for five voices. Join us!

Veni sponsa Christi - Palestrina

Osculetur me osculos oris - Banchieri

Dilectus meus - Palestrina

Trahe me post te - Guerrero

Pulchra es amica mea - Palestrina

Yo me soy la morenica - Anonymous (Cancionero de Uppsala)

Quae es ista - Palestrina

Ecce tu pulcher es - Josquin De Prez

Descendi in hortum nucum - Palestrina

Vulnerasti cor meum - Bouzignac

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Tota Pulchra es - Plummer

Quam pulchri sunt - Palestrina

Duo ubera tua - Palestrina

Sicut Lilium - Brumel

Quam pulchra - Palestrina

Rise up, my love - Willan

Guttur Tuum - Palestrina