"This compelling and insightful album is an outstanding contribution to Monteverdi's 450th anniversary ... Butt's flexible approach to the vexed question of the proportional speeds between duple and triple sections produces some surprisingly languid effects ... but a dance-like vitality elsewhere ... Using just ten singers creates a great transparency of texture"

"Gone are all plainsong antiphons and other contextual additions; what is presented instead is a varied collection of individual pieces of sacred music. This is a shock, though the recording sounds fresh and clear, emphasising transparency without a big reverberant acoustic"