All of the works by Thomas Tallis included on this recording probably date from the reign of Mary Tudor (1553—8), when music for the Latin rite enjoyed a brief Indian summer. They include his most ambitious essays in two traditional forms—the cyclic Mass Puer natus est nobis and the votive antiphon Gaude gloriosa—as well as the occasional motet Suscipe quaeso and the psalm-motet Beati immaculati.