This recording is the first in a series presenting a European panorama of Renaissance sacred polyphony. Each of the five CDs in the series focuses on a particular school or composer, from whose output the familiar is placed alongside the relatively unknown. Together the recordings document a period of unsurpassed richness and accomplishment in the field of sacred music.

13    Aleph
14    Beth

Lamentations II
15    De lamentatione
16    Ghimel 
17    Daleth
18    Heth

19    Audivi vocem de caelo

Total Playing time: 66'10''  DDD
Recorded in the Abbaye de Valloires, Département de la Somme, France in April 1995 
Released 1996
CRD 3499
Also available on CRD 5008 (5CD box set)
Originally released on Collins Classics 14872

"The emotional content is immediate, artful but not artificial, as Higginbottom shapes lines in huge uplifting arcs of sound."

BBC Music Magazine