Most especially the thrills come from the high-wire act performed by the Scholars’ treble voices, Janet Coxwell and Amy Haworth. Great waves of sound that return the hackles on the back of one’s neck to those revelatory recorded performances from the Clerkes of Oxenford in the 1970s which for many were an introduction to the glories of soaring 16th-century English polyphony. As they say, it’s like falling in love all over again.

Every familiar Tallis Scholars trademark is here, of course – immaculate balance and clarity, perfect pacing and much else besides. If I were being over-greedy I might wish for a cathedral acoustic in which Missa Corona spinea could resound far above, but Merton College has served the Scholars wonderfully well and of course does so here. You have to feel for the two settings of Taverner’s Dum transisset Sabbatum which complete the album. Marvellous pieces both, but inevitably in the shadow of a towering masterpiece.