"What Cinquecento gives us is the best of worlds, giving Palestrina's melodic lines and harmonies great clarity, not adding complexity but communicating the words and music with an elegance of phrasing and a feel for the dynamic flow of the music that is entirely natural ... This is the kind of recording that provides a total-immersion listening experience. Don't expect the extremes of Gesualdo or even Monteverdi in this music, but allow it to enter your spiritual being and you will emerge on the other side renewed and with life's little problems firmly put in perspective".