This disc is a very good one for the purpose it serves. What is that purpose? A Renaissance survey of sorts. Many perennial favorites are included - Palestrina's Sicut Cervus, Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus, Victoria's O  Magnum Mysterium, Josquin's Ave Maria, Tallis' If ye love me, just to name  a few. These are Renaissance workhorses, and for good reason - not only are  they textbook examples of the Renaissance idiom, they are of a beauty and  warmth which conceals astounding technical skill. A wide range of works are  presented, from Josquin to Schutz (who is, I think, most often considered a  Baroque composer); the disc, then, provides a wide reaching collection. The  choir, which is rather large (at least from my perspective) is of good  quality. The size, for the most part, does not prevent clarity of  presentation (although I think some of the works such as Ave Maria and If  ye love me, among others, are really best sung with one voice per part -  even in a skilled choir size serves to obscure the part-writing, and  furthermore the musical objective of many of these pieces is intimacy).  Their tone is good, generally well focused, although sometimes lacking  warmth and smoothness. The color they produce is adequate (some of these  pieces really, as I said, require smaller forces to REALLY be heard - not  to mention that a choir of mixed male and female voices really cannot do  justice to the sonority of some of these pieces). The acoustic is not as  resonant as I'd like. Interpretations are also adequate, although tempos  are almost uniformly on the fast (or even what is to me the hurried) side  (Sicut Cervus and O Sacrum Convivium are examples of the problem). These  tempi serve to take from the music the sense of contemplation it deserves -  instead of allowing the music to speak through them it seems that the choir  is forcing the music to speak in a which it was not meant to. But all these  objections are minor ones in context - the scope of the recording is far  reaching enough that many of those things are to be expected. As I said,  this recording is a fine introduction to Renaissance music (it offers in  that way things that many other recordings like it cannot - the choice and  range of pieces is actually reasonable). Someone with listening experience  in Renaissance music should go for, possibly, Hilliard Ensemble recordings  of the Tallis and Josquin and Christ Church Cathedral recordings of the  Palestrina Sicut Cervus(just to name two groups). This disc will probably  be one you listen to often because of the uniform quality of the pieces -  again it does what it intends to very well. Some problems and issues of  taste should not deter. Recommended...