I
haven’t had a Music Tuesday entry in a while and I came across this wonderful
composition by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the 16th century
Italian composer. This is his wonderful arrangement of the opening lines of Psalm 42: “As a deer
longs for the flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.” It is sung in Latin:
Sicut cervus desiderat ad
fontes aquarum,
ita desiderat anima mea
ad te, Deus.
The
artist in this rendition is the choral group, The Cambridge Singers.
