The destinies of Spain and England were closelyintertwined in the 1500s, brought together bydynastic marriages and forced apart by religiousstrife, colonial rivalry and ruinous wars.

The Cardinall’sMusick and Andrew Carwood give voice to theaustere beauty of Morales’s Requiem mass, writtenafter the Spanish composer’s homecoming followingmore than a decade as a member of the papalchapel in Rome.