Sanctum Est Verum Lumen: Multi-Part Music for Choir

Tallis's monumental Spem in alium is one of the greatest glories of Western polyphony, and it's pre-echoes and aftershocks reverberate through all the other pieces on this disc. The National Youth Choir of Great Britain's massed voices shed dazzling light on their multifaceted programme of polychoral jewels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, interspersed with virtuoso tributes from three leading contemporary composers including Gabriel Jackson's own towering 40-part motet Sanctum est verum lumen.