OK, so this recording was on my list years ago but never made it to the top of the heap, but I found it in the used bin yesterday and snatched it up. It is one of the very finest albums of 16th-century Spanish polyphony I've ever heard. The Westminster Cathedral Choir sing magnificently under their then director James O'Donnell, and His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts add just the right dash of intrumental color. A special treat is the instrumental arrangement of Regina caeli laetare. And more good news: Berkshire Record Outlet has it! If you've never heard any of Guerrero's music..., well, you know what to do.
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