Title: One of my favorite recordings of all time
Product review: It is impossible to convey the wonder of this performance. The music on this CD is some of the most wrenchingly exquisite I know of, and is sung with the highest degree of warmth and understanding. One usually associates Renaissance choral polyphony with reserve and repose, not warmth. But Josquin's odes to the Virgin possess striking emotion and tenderness. This is music that was written for and demands the male choral forces deployed here to make sense of its subject: the offering of thanks to maternal being, to the forces of material creation. But you don't need any theology to feel what this music is about. Were I marooned on the proverbial desert island or asked to represent humanity to space aliens, I would offer this music as sung here.
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