This for me, is the sort of musical bliss which should never stop. The Tallis Scholars let the composer's phrases flow through them and there is no trace of self-consciousness, no advertising some new-found authenticity. There is a certain matter-of-fact directness which makes the contrapuntal lines agree without losing identity and which treats chordal passages as simultaneous counterpoint rather than a preview of close harmony technique. John Milsom's review of the two-record LP set found the slow movements and the three-part Mass a little impersonal, a little mechanical. Well, I would not wish any more overt involvement. I find in these performances the awe and mystery I had always expected. Compact Disc treatment reveals a great degree of warmth flowing through the musical veins. Only Ave verum corpus remains of the three motets originally recorded but it is a haunting performance. I know of no better advocate for Byrd's music than this disc.'