Praised for the exceptional purity and brilliance of its singing, The Tallis Scholars under founding director Peter Phillips perform an emotive programme contrasting the splendours of Renaissance choral music from Italy, France and the Netherlands. Beginning with the rich opulence of movements from Palestrina's five-voice Missa L'homme armé, based around a medieval song that warns of the coming of a fearsome armed figure, it includes funeral odes by Mouton, Josquin and Gombert, before closing with the resplendent choral glories of Gombert's uplifting Regina caeli.