Fiori Musicali’s new recording features countertenor James Bowman as soloist in one of the Lamentations, as well as the first UK recording of the Requiem in C Minor, a work of scale and grandeur, whose origins scholars continue to debate. Lasting some 38 minutes the Requiem is scored for choir, soloists, strings and sackbutts (with members of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts) and its style is suitably solemn though curiously galant in the Dies Irae.