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Palestrina: Lamentations - Book 2

Palestrina: Lamentations - Book 2

Cinquecento

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The members of Cinquecento turn to perhaps the pre-eminent composer of the sixteenth century: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been integral to the liturgical rites of Holy Week: here is one of the most sublime.

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