Critically acclaimed, this is a recording of William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices, five part motets by Byrd and Thomas Tallis. All the works on this disk are gems of Late Renaissance composition and are beautifully recorded and sung by this young Scottish group who have become one of Scotland's leading performers of Early Music.

Six contemporary Scottish-based composers come together in this new Mass setting performed by the award-winning Dunedin Consort. Composers Malcolm Lindsay, Christine McCombe, Tommy Fowler, John Gormley, Anthea Haddow and Rebecca Rowe were each commissioned by the Dunedin Consort to set a movement of the Latin Mass to music. Each of the six sections of the Mass is divided into three parts: a plainsong performance of the appropriate chant, the composer's liturgical setting for a cappella choir, and a secular setting based on a text of the composer's choice for a soloist from the Dunedin Consort. Polychoral pieces interweave with harp-accompanied songs in a spiritual work that achieves unity in diversity.