An entire disc of funeral motets and deplorations might not sound like fun, but Josquin’s music and the timeless poetry of his texts assuage and transcend…[Reuss’s] tempos are never too ponderous, so Josquin’s polyphony flows like honeyed balm. Boyish-sounding sopranos and sonorous lower voices caress with a velvety sound. Polyphonic lines are clean, words are clear, expressive devices aptly introspective.

This disc reminds me how deeply moving his music can be. Cappella Amsterdam are a mixed choir singing roughly two to a part. Their sound is situated midway between their Flemish and English counterparts, and their performance style is on the cool side, though never forbidding or overly objectified