This is one of a special edition revisiting some of Harmonia Mundi’s more notable recordings to mark its 50-year history, and fittingly this was (if memory serves) the Huelgas Ensemble’s first recording for the label. Alongside the original booklet-note by Paul van Nevel is a newly commissioned essay which refrains from any puffery: the label’s achievement is more effectively signalled in this issue’s lavish production values, which include a number of topical illustrations of a penitential character, as befits the music. Van Nevel has chosen Lamentations from three of the most important currents of Renaissance polyphony. It’s interesting to hear the White shorn of some of the churchy reverence often attending it in recordings; while perhaps the most intriguing piece is the rarely performed set by de Orto. It’s a typically van Nevelish mix, and though not my own first pick from his production for Harmonia Mundi, it’s not a bad marker.