After completing the events at the 37th International Choral Competition at Tolosa, The Tudor Consort travelled to Austria and Italy to sing masses in Rome at Santa Maria Maggiore and St Peter’s Basilica — key venues where Palestrina spent much of his working life — and performed concerts in Saltzburg and Rome. The concert in Rome was at the beautiful baroque church of Madonna dei Monti. Here, The Tudor Consort appeared with the support of The Palestrina Foundation, an important Italian early music performance society. The second set of pieces on this recording are taken from this concert at Madanna dei Monti on Tuesday 8 November 2005.

The final track on this recording, Alfonso Ferrabosco’s Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae was captured in New Zealand in 2006. The sonorities and textures that result from the exclusive use of male voices create a subtly different aural landscape that releases the latent expressiveness of Alfonso Ferrabosco’s third Lamentation sequence in a powerfully dramatic way.