Stephen Pettitt
The Sunday Times
February 2016

Before his execution in 1498 for heresy—he had spoken out against a corrupt pope—the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola wrote meditations on two Psalm texts that were widely circulated and set to music by the greatest late-Renaissance composers. This choice selection ranges from Josquin's epic Miserere mei, Deus to Byrd's Infelix ergo, every work a model of emotionally moving expressive intensity. The singers exquisitely shape and blend each one.