Pickett has assembled about 40 players—strings, flutes, cornetts, sackbuts, shawms, even bagpipes—and reveled in the resultant array of sounds with an infectious enjoyment worthy of David Munrow.

Celtic Heartbeat is an Irish label established specifically to bring you the very best in authentic Celtic music. With The Celtic Heartbeat Collection, a selection of 12 carefully chosen tracks, we aim to bring you a taste of what is to come.

This gorgeous Mass is based on Palestrina's Ascension Day motet Viri Galilei (included on the disc). The Mass uses standard "parody" technique: passages and motifs from the model (notably the swirling scales in the two soprano parts) are extended and repeated in the Mass; the opening measures of the motet begin each movement, scored differently in each instance.

This nearly-50-year-old performance still retains its status as a "classic", and the digital remastering that would appear to be the raison d'etre for its current release is splendid: the original LPs were engineered in a fashion that blended voices and instruments into a murky mish-mash, and the re-mastering for CD, while helpful, was not ideal. Now, the mish-mash is more like a voluptuous wash: Isolde's lament right after Tristan's death is a case in point--we are now properly overwhelmed by the sheer outpouring of grief coming from both orchestra and soprano, rather than wondering where our attention should be placed; and elsewhere, Furtwängler's absolute understanding of precisely how to wed orchestral fabric to vocal line has never been clearer.

This box of five CDs contains some of the most famous recordings by Savall with Iberian music. This kind of music is Savall's speciality, and thanks to this music he is well-known in the musical world.

This CD contains the most famous melodies by Basque composer Jesus Guridi. It also contains a rare work entitled: Homenaje a Walt Disney (Hommage to Walt Disney).