The Recovering Choir Director

Artist/Choir/Ensemble: The Tallis Scholars
Director: Peter Phillips
Label: Philips

This is not necessarily a Lenten CD, but it contains many selections appropriate for the season. Among them:

Miserere, Gregorio Allegri
Missa “Pange Lingua”, Josquin Desprez
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday, Carlo Gesualdo

Although Gimell’s own releases of Tallis Scholars CDs run around $18 US a pop for sometimes as little as 47 minutes of music, this Philips double-CD compilation provides over 150 minutes of music for the same amount. If you were to own one CD by the Scholars, this would be it. (No translations are provided, however.)