Andrea Hakari asks: >Any suggestions to branch out this early music obsession? By all means check out Johannes Ockeghem's masses, especially the Missa Pro Defunctis and the Missa Prolationum. These are available on a single Naxos CD, but the performances are unusual for early music in having mixed choirs (rather than the all-male a la Hilliard) and the Missa Prolationum especially suffers from a "run-through" impression. (I do like the performance of the Requiem on this CD, though.) My recommendations for these: Missa Pro Defunctis - Peres on Harmonia Mundi (although this has it's own idiosyncracies!!) Missa Prolationum - Hillier/Hilliard on EMI (which has the bonus of the motets, although I don't really give a fig that what was long presented as the "first" "Salve Regina" isn't really by Ockeghem. Now it's missing from THIS collection and I would have preferred to have it. Damn.) Long lost and and mourned by the wind: the recordings of Venhoda on ancient Telefunken LPS. He had the guts to add period instruments AND mixed choirs. Strictly non-HIP, I suppose, but I really liked them. And he had a really good recording of the instrumental piece "Ut heremita solus", too.......:-( Mark [log in to unmask]