Palestrina's place in musical history is assured by his mass settings which so firmly hit the Counter-Reformation button of being intelligible, not over-decorated, and devotional in tone. But he also wrote a wide range of other sacred music, and this interesting two-disc set explores his 1584 settings of the Old Testament Song of Songs. These are among the richest and indeed raunchiest of biblical texts, but Palestrina's settings are quite cool, an impression supported by the rather cool approach to the polyphony here. The final added motets, Afferentur regi and Quam pulchri sunt, are not quite as thrillingly sonorous as they could be.