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Breathtaking polyphonic music from the Renaissance

Suggested Recordings

Taster CDs

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  • Various Composers, Pilgrimage to Santiago, Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir (Monteverdi Productions)

  • Various Composers, Missa Tulerunt Dominum Meum, Siglo de Oro (Delphian)

  • Various Composers, Sancte Deus, New College Choir (Erato)

Other CDs

  • Allegri/Palestrina, Miserere/Missa Papae Marcelli, The Sixteen (Coro)

  • Browne, Music from the Eton Choirbook, The Tallis Scholars (Gimell)

  • Byrd, Masses for 4 and 5 voices, The Sixteen (Veritas)

  • Byrd, 13 Motets from Cantiones Sacrae, The Sarum Consort (Quicksilver)

  • Clemens, Sacred Choral Works, The Tallis Scholars (Gimell)

  • De Rore, Missa Praeter rerum seriem etc., Huelgas Ensemble (Harmonia Mundi)

  • Du Fay, Missa L'homme Armé etc., Oxford Camerata (Naxos)

  • Fayrfax, Missa O quam glorifica etc, The Cardinall's Music (Gaudeamus)

  • Gesualdo, Complete Sacred Music for 5 Voices, Oxford Camerata (Naxos)

  • Gombert, Missa Tempore paschali/Magnificat octavi toni, Henry's Eight (Hyperion)

  • Guerrero, Missa Sancta et immaculata, The Choir of Westminster Cathedral (Helios)

  • Josquin, Missa Fortuna Desperata (plus songs/motets by others), The Clerks' Group (Gaudeamus)

  • Lassus, Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae/Requiem, Collegium Regale (Signum)

  • Morales, Missa Mille Regretz, The Hilliard Ensemble (Almaviva)

  • Morales/Guerrero/Victoria, Maestros del Siglo de Oro, La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall (AliaVox) (3 CDs)

  • Mouton, Missa Tu Es Petrus etc., The Brabant Ensemble (Hyperion)

  • Ockeghem, Requiem/Missa Mi Mi/Missa Prolationum, Hilliard Ensemble (Veritas) (2 CDs)

  • Palestrina, Assumpta Est Maria in Caelum etc., The Tallis Scholars (Gimell)

  • Sheppard, The Church Music of John Sheppard, The Academia Musica Choir (Priory Records)

  • Tallis/Byrd/Sheppard, Ceremony and Devotion, The Sixteen (Coro)

  • Taverner, Ave Dei Patris Filia etc., Christ Church Cathedral Choir (Nimbus Records)

  • Various Composers, 40 Voices, Huelgas Ensemble (Harmonia Mundi)

  • Victoria, Tenebrae Responsories, The Tallis Scholars (Gimell)

  • Victoria, Requiem Mass, Tenebrae (Signum Classics)