These are very sound, lucid performances in every sense…in comparison with the Taverner Consort, James O’Donnell’s reading of Western Wynde is rather softer-centred, but…a work as resourcefully inventive as this both sustains and deserves such contrasting approaches

Performances that are beautifully judged in both their balance and shaping.

Taverner’s Missa Mater Christi sanctissima has rarely been recorded, not least because a missing tenor part needs reconstructive surgery. Francis Steele has brilliantly effected the rescue, transplanting where possible the tenor from the motet (also performed) on which the piece is based. It’s sung with luminescent warmth.