The Dunedin Consort, praised by critics for it's 'clear-textured beauty and a thrilling intensity', surveys the Roman Catholic music of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis on this recording, in which Byrd's Mass for Five Voices is presented as a full service. The intimacy of one-voice-to-a-part performance in Tallis's Salvator Mundi and restful evening motet O nata lux creates an atmosphere of quiet devotion not soon to be forgotten.