The ampersand rather skates past the boldness of pulling together a mass by Philippe de Monte (b1521) and pieces by Ciprianode Rore, Ippolito Baccusi and Tiburtio Massaino, with a setting from Revelation by a composer (Becky McGlade) born 1974. But this is in keeping with luminatus’s previous practice on O Beato Virgo Maria of combining Renaissance work with scores by contemporary female composers. There’s nothing gestural about this. It works – mainly because David Bray’s singers give every word, Latin or English, equal weight and sweetness, each text delivered with an admirable clarity that at moments almost suggests that each voice or sub-group has been recorded separately. It might look like a quixotic obscurity or a rather random bit of programming, but it’s a genuine triumph.

★★★★