Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Music CD, # 1805

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, hailed through the centuries as "prince and father of music," wrote music of unsurpassed grace and beauty. Issued at the 400th anniversary of the master's death, this album contains the only existing recording of his Missa Descendit Angelus Domini and the Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II, and six other motets. "If we have ever had a finer Palestrina recording available, I've not heard it."

— In Tune Magazine

Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: I. Kyrie by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: II. Gloria by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: III. Credo by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: IV. Sanctus by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: V. Benedictus by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Descendit Angelus Domini: VI. Agnus Dei by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Super Flumina Babylonis by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Ad Te levavi oculos meos by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Miserere nostri, Domine by Gloriae Dei Cantores
  
  Sicut cervus by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Sitivit anima mea by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II: I. Kyrie by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II: II. Gloria by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II: III. Credo by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II: IV. Sanctus by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae Mariae Virginis II: V. Benedictus by Gloriae Dei Cantores

• Missa Beatae