Artist	Song
The Sixteen	Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie
from Renaissance - Music for Inner Peace (2005)
Richard Marlow & The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge	Miserere Mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
from Allegri: Miserere (1993)
Studio der frühen Musik & Thomas E. Binkley	Lachrimae (1604): Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
from Dowland: Songs and Lachrimae (2002)
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players	Canzonas, Sonatas and Motets: Son Pian E Forte
from Venetian Church Music - Monterverdi, Gabrieli, Vivaldi (2001)
Academy of St. Martin In the Fields, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus & Sir Neville Marriner	Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen (Speierisches Gesangbuch, Köln, 1599)
from Christmas With the Academy (2000)
Fretwork & Michael Chance	Gome To Me, Grief, For Ever
from Armada: Music from the Courts of England and Spain (2000)
Andrew Parrott & Taverner Consort	Vespro Della Beata Vergine (1610): Psalmus II - Psalmus 112:Laudate Pueri
from Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610 (2000)
The Hilliard Ensemble	Ave Maria... Virgo Serena (Motet A Quatre Voix)
from Josquin: Motets & Chansons - The Hilliard Ensemble (1996)
King's College Choir & Philip Ledger	Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Incipit Lamentatio
from Music for Holy Week (1995)
Jeremy Backhouse & Vasari Singers	Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale): Nunc Dimittis
from Tavener: The Lamb - Pärt: Summa - Górecki: Totus tuus (2006)
Emmanuelle Haïm & Le Concert d'Astrée	Orfeo, Atto Primo: 'Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo' Orfeo
from Monteverdi: Orfeo (2004)
Jeremy Summerly & Oxford Schola Cantorum	Missa Bell' Amfitrit' Altera: II. Gloria
from Early Music - Lassus, Lobo, Victoria: Masses (1995)
Orlando Consort	Missa "De plus en plus": Agnus Dei
from Ockeghem: Missa "De plus en plus" & Chansons (2002)
Monteverdi Choir & John Eliot Gardiner	O magnum mysterium
from Once, As I Remember... (2001)
Anne Sofie von Otter & Jakob Lindberg	What If I Never Speed?
from Music For a While (2005)

Comment:

The Renaissance (1450-1600) was a time of innovation and discovery. While Galileo busied himself with the choreography of the solar system, Palestrina, Monteverdi, and their contemporaries began to unravel the mysteries of harmony. Allegri became the first one-hit wonder with his stunning "Miserere" and Gabrieli invented the concept of loud with his "Sonata Pian' e forte."

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