Lamentations
(second set) sung by the Renaissance Singers
Conductor. Michael Howard
Fifth of a series of nine programmes
Palestrina made four settings of the lessons, taken from the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah, which belong to the nocturnal offices of Holy Week. The first book (or set), the only one printed in his lifetime, appeared in 1588. The second book, to be sung tonight, ends with a particularly fine movement in eight vocal pant*. H.R.